Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 May 2007 08:52:04 +0200 | From | Björn Steinbrink <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] Something goes wrong with timer statistics. |
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On 2007.05.30 00:38:08 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:24 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > (Thomas "The Wizard of Time" added to CC :)) > > Added more wizards :) > > > On 29/05/07, Ian Kumlien <iank@bredband.net> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As the daystar sets, i try to play some with my new would be > > > firewall/server, but since this will be running for quite some time i > > > have been experimenting with powertop to find out what i can do to limit > > > it's power usage. > > > > > > But, if i run powertop for too long or a few times to many... this > > > happens: > > > http://pomac.netswarm.net/pics/kernel_panic.jpg > > This was reported before. It's incredibly hard to reproduce.
Hm, tstats_write() only grabs show_mutex, but it calls reset_entries() which happily messes with the entries table, shouldn't the table_lock also be held in that case?
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