Re: [BUG] Something goes wrong with timer statistics.

[Björn Steinbrink]

On 2007.05.30 08:52:04 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2007.05.30 00:38:08 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:24 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > > Hi Ian,
> > > 
> > > (Thomas "The Wizard of Time" added to CC :))
> > 
> > Added more wizards :)
> > 
> > > On 29/05/07, Ian Kumlien <iank@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > As the daystar sets, i try to play some with my new would be
> > > > firewall/server, but since this will be running for quite some time i
> > > > have been experimenting with powertop to find out what i can do to limit
> > > > it's power usage.
> > > >
> > > > But, if i run powertop for too long or a few times to many... this
> > > > happens:
> > > > http://pomac.netswarm.net/pics/kernel_panic.jpg
> > 
> > This was reported before. It's incredibly hard to reproduce.
> 
> Hm, tstats_write() only grabs show_mutex, but it calls reset_entries()
> which happily messes with the entries table, shouldn't the table_lock
> also be held in that case?

Hrmpf, nevermind, I missed the active flag...

Sorry,
Björn
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