Re: Structure clobbering causes timer oopses

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 20:07:40 EST


Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> ...
> timer magic check failed timer:__run_timers():351
> begin: 0xc035fbc8 end:0xc035fbe8

Can you look these up in System.map?

> ..
>
> BTW, I found lots of users who aren't using init_timer(). Should I
> publicly humiliate them?

If they're initially using add_timer(), that works out
OK. It they start out using mod_timer() (or del_timer) then bug.

I assume you tried all the memory debugging options?
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