linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc2: REGRESSION in early boot

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Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:22:38 -0800
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>, "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc2: REGRESSION in early boot

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:14:14PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> please check http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/4/431
>>
>
> So do you believe that applying this fix will address the failure I
> was seeing?  In a follow up to your thread you replyed to Ben
> Hurchings saying:
>
>>your patch is still needed...
>>also please add one WARN_ON when nr > NR_IRQS.
>>YH
>
> Is there some other patch I should look at as well?
>
> What is your theory for why this was causing a failure in the timer
> subsystem?  Were we overrunning the end of irq_desc array and stomping
> on some other data structure?

Yes. Please do apply that two patches at first.

YH
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