Re: [PATCH] revert: timers: fix itimer/many thread hang

[Ingo Molnar]

* Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Peter didn't mention here that the itimer/many thread patches cause 
> a race-condition panic which is easily reproduced (in fact 
> unavoidable with SLUB debugging on) on hyperthreaded ia64 systems 
> (but certainly possible on all systems).  Can we get this revert 
> patch pulled in?  The other attempts to fix this so far have been 
> unsuccessful.  I have tested with this revert patch and it does 
> indeed fix that issue.

Could you please try with the very latest upstream kernel? It should 
be fixed by Oleg's fix patch via:

ad474ca: fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be fre

which is already upstream.

	Ingo
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