Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] clockevents: fix clockevent_devices list corruptionafter cpu hotplug

From: Xiaotian Feng
Date: Sun Jan 17 2010 - 21:32:20 EST


On 01/17/2010 05:28 PM, Ozan ÃaÄlayan wrote:
Thomas Gleixner wrote:


I'm not happy about that churn. Why don't we simply scan the
clockevent_devices list for leftovers of the dead CPU ?

Untested patch below solves the same problem.


Hi, I have 3 bug reports about a clockevent failure while halting the system (2.6.31.11 kernel).
It exactly pinpoints to the line 262 which got changed with this patch merged to 2.6.31.10 (and also 2.6.32.3):

[4406.986777] kernel BUG at kernel/time/clockevents.c:262!
[4406.986777] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[4406.986777] last sysfs file: /sysfs/module/ip_tables/initstate

I think this one is duplicated of http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15037
Thomas is working on the fix. I've sent a workaround patch on
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/71537/



All 3 systems have Pentium 4 processors with different clock speeds.

Here's a screenshot of the full stacktrace:
http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/attachment.cgi?id=4820

and the relevant bugzilla report:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15073

Thanks,
Ozan Caglayan
Pardus Linux -- http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng


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