Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:52:07 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Lange <thomas@corelatus.se>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] sched: clock wrap bug in 2.6.35-stable kills scheduling
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 07:32:11PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> Commit 305e683 introduced a wrap bug that causes task scheduling to fail
> after sched_clock() wrap. On a 1000 HZ system with 32bit jiffies, this
> occurs after 49.7 days.
> 
> Bug was introduced in 2.6.35.12 and is still present in linux-2.6.35.y HEAD.

Is this an issue in 3.5-rc3?

2.6.35-stable really isn't maintained anymore, I would suggest upgrading
to a more modern kernel version.

thanks,

greg k-h
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