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On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:38 +0100, Aleksander Salwa wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a "divide error" message from the kernel in my system log file > (x86, P4 HT, kernel 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4smp). System is still alive, but > probably something bad happened with thread that made a syscall which > caused that divide error. Should it be considered a kernel bug ? > It looks like there is an overflow (too big value in edx:aex divided by > relatively small value in ebx). Actually the value is negative: 0xffffffffffc2f700 This is -4000000 ns == -4ms So the accounting is off by one jiffie. Does this happen with current kernels too ? tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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