Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:53:40 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: x86-tip.today: flood of WARNING: at include/linux/sched.h:2238 run_posix_cpu_timers+0xea/0x79f() |
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:01 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > Futzing with kerneltop this morning, I fired up amarok to give it > > > something light to monitor while I hunt missing events. Something bad > > > happened, and when I finally (SysRq-E took minutes) got control of box > > > back, dmesg was full of a steady stream of the below. > > > > > > That warning can be kinda unfriendly. > > > > > > > > > [ 9964.600004] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > > [ 9964.600006] WARNING: at include/linux/sched.h:2238 run_posix_cpu_timers+0xea/0x79f() > > > > ah, that's Peter's stuff: > > > > 4cd4c1b: timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers > > 32bd671: signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats. > > > > The discussion with Oleg resulted in the conclusion i > > think that the warning is spurious and should be removed. > > > > I've commited the minimal fix below to tip:master. There's > > more fixes needed too but this should solve the warning > > flood at least. > > I think this is the 'minimal' paranoia version.
applied to tip:timers/urgent, thanks Peter!
Ingo
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