linux-kernel - Re: latest -git: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/ipi.c:123 send_IPI_mask

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Message-ID: <20080825191337.GA25082@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:13:37 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: latest -git: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/ipi.c:123
	send_IPI_mask_bitmask+0xc3/0xe0()

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:08:23PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
 > Andi Kleen wrote:
 > >> Probably because you're using p4-clockmod, and it's crap.
 > > 
 > > Really should really bite the bullet and just remove it. People 
 > > run in this all the time and I bet you can count the people who
 > > actually use it consciously and usefully with one hand.
 > > 
 > > Or at least only make it run when the user set a "I_REALLY_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING"
 > > option explicitely.
 > 
 > CONFIG_BROKEN?

It's not really broken (at least in the CONFIG_BROKEN sense), it just sucks
when used in the wrong situations. (Which is 99% of the use-cases people
try to use it).

	Dave

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