From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 18rc1 soft lockup
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:12:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060714001253.GE10855@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152835358.6845.119.camel@localhost>
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:02:38PM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> > I don't quite understand how this is clock related, soft lockup uses
> > jiffies and there is nothing clock related in the trace???
>
> Hmmm. Well, its easy to check:
>
> Dave, could you comment out the "clocksource_adjust(...)" line in
> kernel/timer.c::update_wall_time() just to check if its the same issue?
I'll try, but just like every other bug I've hit together, it's
non-deterministic. I'll do a half dozen boots to see if turns up again.
Whatever happened to the good old days of reproducable bugs? :)
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-14 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 19:03 18rc1 soft lockup Dave Jones
2006-07-11 19:13 ` john stultz
2006-07-11 19:16 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-13 22:07 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-13 22:15 ` john stultz
2006-07-13 22:28 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-14 9:22 ` Roman Zippel
2006-07-14 14:09 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-14 23:30 ` john stultz
2006-07-13 23:05 ` Roman Zippel
2006-07-14 0:02 ` john stultz
2006-07-14 0:12 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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