[Linux-ia64] Re: 2.4.1 + 010131 patch: sys_nanosleep sleeps... infinitely!

[Linux-ia64] Re: 2.4.1 + 010131 patch: sys_nanosleep sleeps... infinitely!

[Bill Nottingham]

Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com) said: 
> We have also been seeing hangs running with the latest BIOS. The problem
> was isolated to a tiny window in arch/ia64/kernel/time.c where
> itm could get loaded with a value that is in the past.

I've certainly seen references to time going in the past recently;
the error messages are usually from ping.

Bill

Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: 2.4.1 + 010131 patch: sys_nanosleep sleeps...

[Francis Galiegue]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> 
> Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com) said: 
> > We have also been seeing hangs running with the latest BIOS. The problem
> > was isolated to a tiny window in arch/ia64/kernel/time.c where
> > itm could get loaded with a value that is in the past.
> 
> I've certainly seen references to time going in the past recently;
> the error messages are usually from ping.
> 

Yep, seen those too. Now they don't show up anymore.

First impression about the patch: terrific! Not only does sleep work fine, but
it also cures the hangs I had on heavy I/O.

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