Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752052Ab0LFMzK (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2010 07:55:10 -0500 Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:57728 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750893Ab0LFMzI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2010 07:55:08 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=t50Qukez2Ui27nkesh9HKVxNummMGQ82YRH0lnWSPdN83KnzgecyvyLMsopXuhUwe8 bBQhOpZIQ6GBLjagNA58I64fKsGOZv02L+LEbGA5X+XgRRhb3BLk000zzw4pkNY1rWra 3SMVix337BtmQmFVgTb9oLZJPVu9lHEERiAfE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1282932708.1946.8.camel@work-vm> <1284054125.2762.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:55:07 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: i0aUmvSo8wfUDFd5ASWZrCmc3wc Message-ID: Subject: Re: System time drifts when processor idle. From: jean-philippe francois To: john stultz Cc: Lin Ming , venki@google.com, "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, LKML , jslaby@suse.cz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2065 Lines: 52 2010/9/13 jean-philippe francois : > 2010/9/9 john stultz : >> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 14:23 +0200, jean-philippe francois wrote: >>> 2010/8/27 john stultz : >>> > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 16:12 +0200, jean-philippe francois wrote: >>> >> My Timekeeping bug is still present, here is an updated script and log. >>> >> I am willing to make test, but I don't know what kind of debugging >>> >> info is needed. >>> >> >>> >> cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource >>> >> hpet acpi_pm >>> >> cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource >>> >> hpet >>> > >>> > Huh. hpet was not what I would have expected. >>> > >>> > >>> > So first, two experiments: >>> > >>> > 1) Does booting with "clock=acpi_pm" cause the issue to disappear? >>> > >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> The same bug happens with clock=acpi_pm. >>> My apologies for a previous mail where I said it was not hapenning with acpi_pm. >>> >>> With both clock, the timekeeping gap augments by amount of 5 minutes. >> >> Huh. So this still seems strange, but assuming we're still using the >> hpet for irqs, its possible the event somehow gets pushed back 5 minutes >> and we miss an timekeeping interval accumulation (with acpi_pm, the >> counter wraps ever 5 seconds or so, so we could miss many accumulation >> intervals and still be 5 minutes off if the tick timer was late). >> >> Again, seeing if the issue goes away with nohz=off would be helpful. >> > > It ?goes away witj nohz=off > A little update on this time keeping bug : - the system time drifts by amount of 5 minutes - it happens with both hpet and acpi_pm as clock source - it goes away when booting with nohz=off - it goes away when booting with processor.max_cstate=1 Jean-Philippe Fran?ois -- 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/