Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751661AbYAPVYP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:24:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751507AbYAPVXt (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:23:49 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:56911 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751469AbYAPVXr (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:23:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:23:28 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Balaji Rao cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: setting jiffies as the clocksource stops time In-Reply-To: <200801170209.42138.balajirrao@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200801170209.42138.balajirrao@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 0.99999 (LFD 796 2007-11-08) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 680 Lines: 19 On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Balaji Rao wrote: > When i set jiffies as the current_clocksource, date(1) tells me that wallclock time has stopped, and soon after that, the > system becomes unresponsive. This is not seen with CONFIG_NO_HZ disabled. > > This happens in 2.6.24-rc4,rc5, and even in rc8. It happens since 2.6.21-rc1 on 32 bit. > Thomas, Ingo what are your thoughts on this ? http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/16/123 Thanks, tglx -- 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/