Re: schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
04 Jan 1999 11:56:02 +0100


Bo Johansson <bosse@bjont97.lyan.hv.se> writes:

|> Happy New Year, all.
|>
|> I haven't seen anyone reportings this so I thought I'd
|> better so it myself.
|>
|> I get these messages from syslogd quite frequently and
|> they seem to have the same values all the time.
|>
|> kernel: schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value f3333335 from c012ce3a
|>
|> I use 2.1.132 #2 Wed Dec 23 02:52:36 MET 1998 i586
|> compiled with gcc-2.7.2.3
|>
|> Hope this helps someone to fix whatever is wrong.

I have seen this as well, and in my case it came from a program (i don't
remember which) that did not initialize the tv_usec field of struct
timeval, so that it contains some large number, very much larger than
1000000. I think the kernel should normalize the timeout value.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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