Re: problem with the timers ?!? (was: No one wants to help me)

> Problem is, it seems that your machine is using > IPV4, TCP, IDE, netfilter and nothing else. Those > parts of the kernel don't have the above bug (well, > they didn't mid last year). > > One really, really useful piece of information would > be the value of the `function' member of the corrup

Re: No one wants to help me :-(

Brian Gerst wrote: > > Mircea Damian wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg35446.html > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg36591.html > > > > M

Re: problem with the timers ?!? (was: No one wants to help me)

Doru Petrescu wrote: > > also I don't understand how a race condition can occour since all > functions that play with the lists has a spin_lock() arround them. > Maybe is not someting wrong in the timers, maybe some other part of the > kernel is doing the bad thing. Yes. All it takes is this:

Re: problem with the timers ?!? (was: No one wants to help me)

ok, here are some more info on this issue. BTW, I am the other guy Mircea is talking about, and I wrote the paranoia timer.c that call debug_timer_list() all the time to check the integrity of the timer lists. That file was a test of mine and it wasn't initialy intended for public release, so SOR

Re: No one wants to help me :-(

Mircea Damian wrote: > > Hello, > > I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg35446.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg36591.html > > My machine is dyeing in add_timer(). I

Re: No one wants to help me :-(

> I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg35446.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg36591.html > If you don't receive an answer, then it either indicates that the bug is t

Re: No one wants to help me :-(

> I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg35446.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg35446.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg36591.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg36591.html > Maybe someone can see which is

No one wants to help me :-(

Hello, I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg35446.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg36591.html My machine is dyeing in add_timer(). It seems to happen only on SMP machi