Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 May 2005 21:49:01 +1200 | From | Reuben Farrelly <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 |
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Hi,
Andrew Morton wrote: > Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net> wrote: > >>Hi Andrew, >> >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc3/2.6.12-rc3-mm1/ >>> >>>- There's still a bug in the new timer code. If you think you hit it, >>> please revert >>> >>> timers-fixes-improvements-fix.patch then >>> timers-fixes-improvements-smp_processor_id-fix.patch then >>> timers-fixes-improvements.patch >>> >>> or, better, fix the bug. >> >>FWIW, I can reproduce this timer bug fairly consistently, by simply >>rebooting my cisco router. That means that my linux box has no default >>gateway, and hence the networking blows up within about 30s and dies >>with a stack trace which has references to timers. >> >>I'll back out those three patches and see if it continues, but hopefully >>my little discovery is useful to someone in terms of coming up with a >>fix.... >> > > > Rather than backing things out, please add this instead: > > > From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> > > The bug was identified by Maneesh Soni.
Yup, this patch seems to fix it. I did 3 router reboots, and my linux box held up fine. Previous to this patch it had fatally oopsed 5 out of the 6 times I reloaded the router..
Thanks :)
reuben
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