Re: Badness at kernel/time/timekeeping.c:98 in pmud (timekeeping_suspended)

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Sunday 08 February 2009, Paul Collins wrote:
> > Paul Collins <paul@burly.ondioline.org> writes:
> > 
> > > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> writes:
> > >
> > >> On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Paul Collins wrote:
> > >>> Got a couple of these on a PowerBook running 2.6.29-rc2 either during
> > >>> suspend or resume -- it's hard to tell.  (The suspend message is
> > >>> timestamped in syslog with the time I resumed, so I guess it was
> > >>> buffered along with the subsequent "Badness" messages.)
> > >>
> > >> Please check if the patch from http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/13/144 fixes the
> > >> problem for you.
> > >
> > > It does not fix the problem.
> > 
> > I'm also getting this warning since 2.6.28.1, which incorporated commit
> > 1c5745aa380efb6417b5681104b007c8612fb496 ("sched_clock: prevent
> > scd->clock from moving backwards, take #2") as commit
> > e268dcdd404f4558cdd24c8ecede3e064df8fa33, this being the patch that
> > introduced the WARN_ON(timekeeping_suspended) check.
> 
> Hm, I thought the timekeeping suspend problem was fixed in this commit.  Ingo?

The commit fixed the problem with sched_clock, but it does not fix
problems where other parts of the kernel call timekeeping functions
_AFTER_ timekeeping has been suspended.

Thanks,

	tglx