Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754786AbYCZO6Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:58:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751202AbYCZO6K (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:58:10 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:52972 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750745AbYCZO6I (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:58:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:51:40 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Gabriel C cc: Gabriel C , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Natalie Protasevich , andi-bz@firstfloor.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc5-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.24 In-Reply-To: <47EA4500.9090708@frugalware.org> Message-ID: References: <200803170018.52663.rjw@sisk.pl> <47E40B1C.30407@frugalware.org> <47E420C5.1050407@frugalware.org> <47E42FAB.6000906@frugalware.org> <47E50AF9.5070801@frugalware.org> <47E5221B.5040900@frugalware.org> <47E58B06.8020905@frugalware.org> <47E63851.7000702@frugalware.org> <47E6E85E.9030008@frugalware.org> <47E82C1F.7070304@frugalware.org> <47EA4500.9090708@frugalware.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) 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: 1345 Lines: 34 On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Gabriel C wrote: > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Gabriel C wrote: > >>> Hmm. Can you please apply the patch below. It add some more info and > >>> triggers the sysrq-q timer list printout when the watchdog > >>> triggers. That might us give some insight into this. > >> Sorry for the lag , I was out the whole day. > >> > >> Here is what I've found in dmesg ( the box was idling at that time , as said I was not around ): > >> > >> ... > >> > >> [34528.893366] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 4686697613 ns) E:34204592 J:34210723 > > > > Ok. The timer got delayed. It got delayed because it is initialized as > > a deferrable timer, which is obviously wrong. Sigh, I signed off on > > that commit myself without thinking about the consequences. > > > > Can you please apply the patch below on top of the others? > > Box is up for almost one day with that patch on top the other ones and everything is fine so far. Thanks for testing. I push the patches Linuswards. @Andi: The revert of the reverted clocksource watchdog is staged for .26 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/