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SubjectRe: [PATCH] revert: timers: fix itimer/many thread hang
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On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 17:08 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com> wrote:
>
> > Peter didn't mention here that the itimer/many thread patches cause
> > a race-condition panic which is easily reproduced (in fact
> > unavoidable with SLUB debugging on) on hyperthreaded ia64 systems
> > (but certainly possible on all systems). Can we get this revert
> > patch pulled in? The other attempts to fix this so far have been
> > unsuccessful. I have tested with this revert patch and it does
> > indeed fix that issue.
>
> Could you please try with the very latest upstream kernel? It should
> be fixed by Oleg's fix patch via:
>
> ad474ca: fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be fre
>
> which is already upstream.
>
> Ingo

Ingo,

Thanks, somehow I had missed that. I tested with the latest GIT tree
and the issue is resolved now.

- Doug




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