Bug 163751 - fc2 crashes due to delay.h bug
Summary: fc2 crashes due to delay.h bug
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Legacy
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: fc2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Fedora Legacy Bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-20 20:05 UTC by deepfreeze
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-07-26 05:36:56 UTC
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Description deepfreeze 2005-07-20 20:05:11 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)

Description of problem:
./include/linux/delay.h of the kernel source causes FC2 under i386/amd athlon/others? to crash (in the compiled/running kernel) after changing the .config HZ value (make menuconfig) to a power of 2 (e.g. 4096).

changing line 31 (in mdelay)
from:   unsigned long __ms=(n);
to:     unsigned long __ms=((n*5)>>2);

should fix the problem.


Note: this problem came up during kernel development and requires several other source code changes to reproduce.  






Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.10-1.771_FC2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see Note in description
2. try higher power of 2 .config HZ values
3. easier to discover with GL apps (e.g. NVIDIA/quake arena)
  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-07-26 00:04:55 UTC
I imagine the legacy folks reaction to this will likely be "don't do that then",
or "if you change something, you get to fix the fallout", but reassigning anyway..


Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2005-07-26 05:36:56 UTC
Yeah.. :-(  We definitely don't have resources to fix this bug as it doesn't
appear in default installs and isn't security-related, so closing as WONTFIX.


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