From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754848AbYKEPf0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:35:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752044AbYKEPfM (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:35:12 -0500 Received: from www.church-of-our-saviour.org ([69.25.196.31]:48196 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751639AbYKEPfL (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:35:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:35:08 -0500 From: Theodore Tso To: Yinghai Lu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc2: REGRESSION in early boot Message-ID: <20081105153508.GB22998@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Yinghai Lu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner References: <20081104224510.GA7672@mit.edu> <86802c440811041614i5ab5e7f5hf910211ef57423e7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86802c440811041614i5ab5e7f5hf910211ef57423e7@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@mit.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:14:14PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > please check http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/4/431 > So do you believe that applying this fix will address the failure I was seeing? In a follow up to your thread you replyed to Ben Hurchings saying: >your patch is still needed... >also please add one WARN_ON when nr > NR_IRQS. >YH Is there some other patch I should look at as well? What is your theory for why this was causing a failure in the timer subsystem? Were we overrunning the end of irq_desc array and stomping on some other data structure? Thanks, regards, - Ted