Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:12:22 +0000
From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [TIP,BISECTED] Negative nice values have become big positive numbers
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References: <20090308231850.GB24445@silver.sucs.org> <20090309201503.GA5010@nowhere>
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On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:15:04PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 11:18:50PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> > Formally negative nice values have started become very big in positive
> > integers in -tip kernels:
> > 
> >     2 root      15 2147483647     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd    
> 
> The weird thing here is that number: 2147483647
> It is 0xefffffff
> Which means -1 without the highest bit (the sign).
> I really don't know how it could have happened.
> 
> Anyway, I caught something in the signedness bits from my patch that unifies
> the format decoding.
> I've never seen your bug on my machine. But I note you have a 32 bits CPU.
> Mine is 64 bits with a 64 bits kernel. Perhaps some weird signedness related things
> happened because of the signedness bug that the following patch fixes.
> 
> Can you please give it a try?

This seems to have fixed the problem (unless I'm mistaken):
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           

Thanks!

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