[Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at cohens.org.il
Sun Jan 17 03:31:30 MSK 2010


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:06:27AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just to wrap the story up: I checked the source code. The offending 
> "oops" comes from a line 390 in hpet.c, which is the WARN_ON_ONCE call 
> below:
> 
> <kernel code>
>     /*
>      * We need to read back the CMP register to make sure that
>      * what we wrote hit the chip before we compare it to the
>      * counter.
>      */
>     WARN_ON_ONCE((u32)hpet_readl(HPET_Tn_CMP(timer)) != cnt);
> </kernel code>
> 
> (there are two hpet.c in the kernel tree, but I won't be fussy)

Two arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c? (the path from the message)

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