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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, Maxim <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:53:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071230145304.GS16946@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1199001010.5452.30.camel@homer.simson.net>


* Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:

> > Is this after resume ? If yes, then something (probably BIOS) is 
> > fiddling with the TSC of one CPU when the resume happens.
> 
> My P4 box has the same "problem", which is remedied by..

> -	start = get_cycles_sync();
> +	start = last_tsc = get_cycles_sync();

this is slightly racy - your second patch that initializes things 
properly is the right solution IMO. I'm wondering, if others are seeing 
this too, should we make this a v2.6.24 item? It's a bit late for that i 
think - although it shouldnt hurt.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-30 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-16 10:30 [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far Maxim Levitsky
2007-03-16 23:19 ` Len Brown
2007-03-17 23:00   ` Maxim
2007-03-17 23:32     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-12-30  7:50       ` Mike Galbraith
2007-12-30 14:53         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-03-20 11:54     ` sysfs ugly timer interface (was Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far) Pavel Machek
2007-03-22 15:28       ` Greg KH
2007-03-22 15:41         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-23  1:24         ` sysfs q [was: sysfs ugly timer interface] Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-23  4:48           ` Greg KH
2007-03-23  6:05             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-16 23:39 ` [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 23:01   ` Maxim
2007-03-16 23:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17  0:04   ` [PATCH] i386: trust the PM-Timer calibration of the local APIC timer Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17  7:22     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-17 13:24     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-18  8:12     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-18  8:45       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17  1:32   ` [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far Len Brown
2007-03-17  9:56     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 11:05       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 16:52       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 10:32     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-17 13:26       ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-20  4:27         ` Greg KH
2007-03-20  6:30           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-20  9:14           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-20 11:36           ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-20 11:41             ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-17 22:45     ` Maxim
2007-03-20  5:04   ` Lee Revell
2007-03-20  5:36     ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-03-20  9:15       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-20 18:04         ` Andy Lutomirski
2007-03-20 22:58         ` Eric St-Laurent

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