Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:39:28 -0400
From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 05:52:18PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> With kernel 2.6.32-rc3-00052-g0eca52a I got following KERN_ERR
> messages just while using firefox:
> 
> [  130.527399] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
> [  130.559807] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
> ...
> 
> Any idea? or known issue?

We have a single customer which also has this issue.
We've never been able to replicate it ourselves, but
for that one customer, changing the two places in the
networking code that use:

	__raise_softirq_irqoff
to
	raise_softirq_irqoff

seems (so far) to be working.

Regards,
Joe
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