From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:23:54 +0100 From: Martin Schwidefsky Subject: Re: [BUG,2.6.28,s390] Fails to boot in Hercules S/390 emulator - hang traced Message-ID: <20090324092354.62bfb91a@skybase> In-Reply-To: <1237846740.7068.15.camel@jstultz-laptop> References: <200903080230.10099.elendil@planet.nl> <200903181307.44867.elendil@planet.nl> <1237391338.32698.9.camel@jstultz-laptop> <200903230111.08814.elendil@planet.nl> <1237846740.7068.15.camel@jstultz-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: John Stultz Cc: Frans Pop , Thomas Gleixner , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:19:00 -0700 John Stultz wrote: > Fixing the divide issue avoids the problem (and is pretty important to > get upstream), but the underlying issue that we allow ONESHOT clockevent > mode to be used while the jiffies clocksource is in use is a concern. The bug only appears on 31-bit if the kernel is compiled for a G5. All current distros use at 64-bit kernels with a cpu >= z900. The severity is relative .. but the bug fix is upstream and Greg picked it up for his stable releases. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.