Bug 459761

Summary: Fix nop timeout detection
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Mike Christie <mchristi>
Component: kernelAssignee: Mike Christie <mchristi>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Version: 5.2   
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Description Mike Christie 2008-08-22 01:25:49 UTC 
Created attachment 314766 [details]
fix nop timer checks

Description of problem:

If the nop timer wakes at the same time it was supposed to check for a timeout
we mistakenly think it timedout instead of us needing to check.

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How reproducible:

Once out of all the testing done for 5.2.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. set nop timers on
2. run no IO
3. wait to see if a ping times out by accident.
  
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Expected results:


Additional info:

Fixes are upstream
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=4cf1043593db6a337f10e006c23c69e5fc93e722
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c8611f975403dd20e6503aff8aded5dcb718f75b