Re: Periodic posix timer support broke between 2.6.9-rc1 and 2.6.9-rc1-bk17

[George Anzinger]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> I ran some test programs and discovered that the periodic timer support
> is broken. The timer is triggered once and then never again. Single shot
> timers work fine. 2.6.9-rc1 is fine. The first kernel that I tested where
> I noticed the breakage was 2.6.9-rc1-bk17. 2.6.9-rc2 and following all
> cannot do periodic timer signals.
>
> I looked through the changelog but I cannot see anything that would cause
> the problem. Roland's patch surely could not have done this.
>
> Will try to track this down further, time permitting...

The most likely thing would be failure to do the call back from the signal 
delivery code.
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George Anzinger   george@xxxxxxxxxx
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml

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