Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:32:52 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23 regression: do_nanosleep will not return
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:20:26 +0200
Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de> wrote:
> Bernd Schubert wrote:

> > we have a system here were e.g. "sleep 1" will never finish. This
> > is an issue of 2.6.23, on all older kernel versions it did work
> > fine.
> > 
> > Seems to hang in do_nanosleep()
> 
> 
> Update: Enabling hpet in the bios and setting clocksource=hpet as
> command line parameter will fix it, but still its not nice that
> something that worked without a problem in 2.6.22 and below suddenly
> doesn't work in 2.6.23.

Which timer source is in use when the system hangs?

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