From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758135AbYLQLfI (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:35:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751410AbYLQLez (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:34:55 -0500 Received: from cs20.apochromatic.org ([204.152.189.161]:52507 "EHLO cs20.apochromatic.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750994AbYLQLey (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:34:54 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 507 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:34:54 EST Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:26:25 +0000 From: Matt Fleming To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Willy Tarreau , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mingo@elte.hu, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, Thomas Gleixner , Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [patch 68/83] x86: HPET: convert WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE Message-ID: <20081217112625.GJ13247@console-pimps.org> References: <20081211190201.612240183@mini.kroah.org> <20081211191620.GP5894@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081211191620.GP5894@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:16:20AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > ------------------ > > From: Matt Fleming > > commit 1de5b0854623d30d01d72cd4ea323eb5f39d1f16 upstream. > > It is possible to flood the console with call traces if the WARN_ON > condition is true because of the frequency with which this function is > called. > If this commit is going into stable it would be worth adding these two commits (which are actually the bugfixes). 5ceb1a04187553e08c6ab60d30cee7c454ee139a x86: HPET: enter hpet_interrupt_handler with interrupts disabled 89d77a1eb60be916d85d9394bedbfa2037af89c5 x86: HPET: read from HPET_Tn_CMP() not HPET_T0_CMP