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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around for periodic do_gettimeofday hang
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:47:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101397634.18177.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101314988.1714.194.camel@mulgrave>

On Mer, 2004-11-24 at 16:49, James Bottomley wrote:
> On the voyager systems particularly (but also on some of my slower
> parisc boxes) I periodically get hangs where the system just seems to
> stop (although it does remain able to execute alt-sysrq).  The traces
> always seem to implicate do_gettimeofday in the xtime seqlock.

What are the other CPUs doing in this case ?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-27  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-24 16:49 [PATCH] Work around for periodic do_gettimeofday hang James Bottomley
2004-11-24 19:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-25  4:27   ` James Bottomley
2004-11-25  4:33     ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-25  4:40       ` James Bottomley
2004-11-25  8:20       ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-27 22:38         ` Lee Revell
2004-11-25 11:18     ` Roman Zippel
2004-11-25 13:42     ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-25 15:47 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-11-25 17:33   ` James Bottomley

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