From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161146AbWGNANB (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:13:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161151AbWGNANB (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:13:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44205 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161146AbWGNANA (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:13:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:12:54 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: john stultz Cc: Roman Zippel , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 18rc1 soft lockup Message-ID: <20060714001253.GE10855@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , john stultz , Roman Zippel , Linux Kernel References: <20060711190346.GK5362@redhat.com> <1152645227.760.9.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060711191658.GM5362@redhat.com> <20060713220722.GA3371@redhat.com> <1152828943.6845.107.camel@localhost> <1152835358.6845.119.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1152835358.6845.119.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk