Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932517AbWAQXlS (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:41:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932515AbWAQXlR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:41:17 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60553 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932398AbWAQXlQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:41:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:43:07 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: john stultz Cc: malattia@linux.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Time: Delay clocksource selection until later in boot Message-Id: <20060117154307.07f57bbb.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1137525365.27699.97.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1137525365.27699.97.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 15 john stultz wrote: > > Delay installing new clocksources until later in boot. This avoids some > of the clocksource churn that can occur at boot, possibly allowing the > system to run for a brief time with a bad clocksource. > > This patch resolves the boot time stalls seen by Mattia Dongili. > Except he now thinks that it doesn't. Do you think the patch is good anyway? - 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/