Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751266AbVJGLOp (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751326AbVJGLOp (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:14:45 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:10125 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751266AbVJGLOo (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:14:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:14:58 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner , john stultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david singleton Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc3-rt2 Message-ID: <20051007111458.GA857@elte.hu> References: <20051004084405.GA24296@elte.hu> <1128527319.13057.139.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <20051005155836.GA3626@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled SpamAssassin version=3.0.4 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 912 Lines: 28 * Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > > It seems that the problem comes down to the call to getnstimeofday in > > do_gettimeofday. > > > > OK, not sure if anyone looked into this more or not. But this patch > seems to at least fix the symptom if not the cure. I changed > set_normalize_timespec to take a nsec_t type as its last parameter. > Since I don't see a problem with overflowing a 64 bit number, this > works for now. But I still don't know the full extent of > xtime_last_update not updating during something like hackbench > starving the timer softirq. thanks, applied. Ingo - 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/