Re: Linux 3.0 release
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2011-07-22 19:22:23
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:11 PM, David [off-list ref] wrote:
I'm getting the following warning at boot from 3.0, everything seems to be fine otherwise though. Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526629] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526635] WARNING: at kernel/timer.c:1011 del_timer_sync+0x4e/0x50()
Hmm. That looks like a real bug: you shouldn't do a "del_timer_sync()" from an interrupt. It probably works, but it sounds like a really bad idea.
Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526677] [<ffffffff81054b4e>] del_timer_sync+0x4e/0x50 Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526679] [<ffffffff8145e224>] linkwatch_schedule_work+0x84/0xa0 Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526681] [<ffffffff8145e2bc>] linkwatch_fire_event+0x7c/0x100 Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526684] [<ffffffff8146b1ed>] netif_carrier_on+0x2d/0x40 Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526689] [<ffffffffa006b6fb>] __rtl8169_check_link_status+0x4b/0xc0 [r8169] Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526693] [<ffffffffa006c016>] rtl8169_interrupt+0x166/0x3a0 [r8169] Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526696] [<ffffffff810a4385>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x55/0x1f0 Jul 22 19:40:02 server kernel: [ 15.526698] [<ffffffff810a4551>] handle_irq_event+0x31/0x50
I'm not seeing a lot of changes in any of these areas, though. I
wonder what made it start happen.
Linus