Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262954AbUDUOUg (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:20:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262996AbUDUOUg (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:20:36 -0400 Received: from jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.208.2]:53164 "EHLO jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262974AbUDUOUe (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:20:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:20:32 +0200 (CEST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: john stultz Cc: Niclas Gustafsson , lkml , Patricia Gaughen Subject: Re: Failing back to INSANE timesource :) Time stopped today. In-Reply-To: <1082495923.10026.36.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <1081416100.6425.45.camel@gmg.codesense.com> <1081465114.4705.4.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1081932857.17234.37.camel@gmg.codesense.com> <1082048278.17234.144.camel@gmg.codesense.com> <1082452873.20179.34.camel@gmg.codesense.com> <1082495923.10026.36.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> Organization: Technical University of Gdansk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1319 Lines: 32 On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, john stultz wrote: > > If you are asking about the problematic code, then it's there since > > 2.3.x, so it's in 2.4, too. It's a part of the NMI watchdog support, > > though it's used for ordinary timer interrupts for certain systems as > > well. > > Are you saying that 2.4 will exhibit this problem as well, or that 2.4 > already has an equivalent workaround? The former. > > Apparently there are problems with the workaround on certain AMD > > Athlon-based systems. I suppose they need to be resolved somehow first. > > Can you point me to any threads on this issue. I'd like to do what I can > to help get this workaround in. Here's my reply to a report which seems not to have reached LKML archives for some reason: "http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.2/0384". The important part of the original mail is quoted. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/