Re: PANIC in check_process_timers() running 2.6.11-rc2-mm1

From: Alexander Nyberg
Date: Tue Jan 25 2005 - 18:06:31 EST


> Thanks for tracking that down. It was intended that such things would not
> be possible because getting into that code in the first place should be
> ruled out while exiting. That removes the requirement for any special case
> check in the common path. But, it was done too late since it hadn't
> occurred to me that ->live going zero itself created a problem.
>
> Please try this patch instead of the one you posted. This patch goes on
> top of all the patches I posted, and so should apply to -mm1 fine. But
> because the context nearby changes a lot in the various patches, this one
> won't apply after just the cputimers patch without the succeeding three.

Yep, appears to be working fine here and cleaner :-)

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