Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 12 Oct 2002 19:09:42 -0700 | | From | Dave Hansen <> | | Subject | Re: Structure clobbering causes timer oopses |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: >>... >>timer magic check failed timer:__run_timers():351 >>begin: 0xc035fbc8 end:0xc035fbe8 > > Can you look these up in System.map?
Inside tvec_bases, just like eip, because of timer_t->function. c035fa80 d tvec_bases c037fe80 d pidmap_lock c037fea0 D page_states
>>BTW, I found lots of users who aren't using init_timer(). Should I >>publicly humiliate them? > > If they're initially using add_timer(), that works out > OK. It they start out using mod_timer() (or del_timer) then bug.
The init_timer() comment says otherwise, but I imagine that not using it shouldn't _cause_ any bugs.
* init_timer() must be done to a timer prior calling *any* of the * other timer functions.
> I assume you tried all the memory debugging options?
No luck there. I can't even get the oops to trigger with all the debugging on.
-- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com
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