Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:09:02 -0800 | From | malahal@us ... | Subject | Re: next-20081119: general protection fault: get_next_timer_interrupt() |
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Thomas Gleixner [tglx@linutronix.de] wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Mike Anderson wrote: > > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > Yeah, block could it be as well. Jens, Mike ? > > > > I added a comment to bug 12020 on Thursday about a few other systems that > > where seeing the signature shown in bug 12020. It appeared from debug that > > there where a few paths that where adding timers for requests that where > > not expected. > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12020 > > > > It would be good to know if the debug patch below effects your problem as while. > > > > If it does we need to investigated a solution to resolve not adding a > > timer for these requests.
The block timer code calls del_timer(), should it call del_timer_sync()? It is possible although unlikely that you are hitting del_timer_sync vs del_timer problem in the block timeout code. Can only be seen on SMP systems though!
--Malahal.
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