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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Regression] Negative time on Acer Ferrari One with current -git
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 15:39:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274481551.5630.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005211515460.3689@i5.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 15:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 May 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > Trying to boot current -git on Acer Ferrari One (64-bit), I get mount errors
> > for all filesystems telling me that "now = (null) is in the future" and when
> > run 'date' it says: "date: time <long negative number> is out of range".
> > 
> > Any ideas anyone?
> 
> No ideas, but apart from the obvious "maybe you can pin it down a bit with 
> a few bisection compiles", it's almost certainly through the timer tree 
> merge from Thomas, which included various wall-clock-time changes from 
> John Stultz & co.
> 
> I don't see anything else that would likely affect any wall-clock time, 
> but who knows..
> 
> John, Thomas? Ring any bells?

Hrm..  From my queue, I'd probably try reverting the following first:

6a867a3|| time: Remove xtime_cache

Rafael: I assume 2.6.34 is fine?

thanks
-john



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-21 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-21 21:43 [Regression] Negative time on Acer Ferrari One with current -git Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-21 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-21 22:39   ` john stultz [this message]
2010-05-22 17:54     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-22 14:05   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-22 14:18     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-22 17:34       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-22 17:52         ` Borislav Petkov
2010-05-22 18:00           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-22 18:25         ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-22 18:32           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-22 20:55             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-22 21:20               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-23  6:40                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-23 13:21                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-23 21:20                   ` john stultz

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