linux-kernel - Re: [stable] 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

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Message-ID: <20110430112244.GA16885@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:22:44 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@...uxbox.cz>,
	linux-kernel mlist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-stable mlist <stable@...nel.org>,
	Hervé Commowick <hcommowick@...sec.fr>,
	seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [stable] 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> There was a kernel parameter in the past that was used to make jiffies wrap
> a few minutes after boot, maybe we should revive it to try to reproduce
> without waiting 7 new months :-/

IMHO, such an option should be given a permanent home in KCONFIG, and it
should be enabled by default.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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