Well from a quick peek, there is some funny stuff happening in the
timer code.
- del_timer_sync() iterates across all CPUs, but does not do
actually _do_ anything for each CPU. (I suspect this may
be the source of your crash - del_timer_sync() is bust)
- the back-to-back preempt_disable()/preempt_enable() is
unusual. What's that for?
- __run_timers() is doing spin_unlock_irq() inside spin_lock_irqsave().
That's probably not a bug in this context, but it's a wart.
This help?
--- 2.5.40/kernel/timer.c~timer-tricks Sun Oct 6 14:50:39 2002
+++ 2.5.40-akpm/kernel/timer.c Sun Oct 6 14:52:34 2002
@@ -265,20 +265,19 @@ repeat:
*/
int del_timer_sync(timer_t *timer)
{
- tvec_base_t *base = tvec_bases;
int i, ret;
ret = del_timer(timer);
for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
+ tvec_base_t *base;
+
if (!cpu_online(i))
continue;
+ base = tvec_bases + i;
if (base->running_timer == timer) {
- while (base->running_timer == timer) {
+ while (base->running_timer == timer)
cpu_relax();
- preempt_disable();
- preempt_enable();
- }
break;
}
base++;
@@ -359,9 +358,9 @@ repeat:
#if CONFIG_SMP
base->running_timer = timer;
#endif
- spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags);
fn(data);
- spin_lock_irq(&base->lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&base->lock, flags);
goto repeat;
}
++base->timer_jiffies;
.
-
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