Re: [BUG,2.6.28,s390] Fails to boot in Hercules S/390 emulator - hang traced

Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-24T08:24:18Z

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:19:00 -0700
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Fixing the divide issue avoids the problem (and is pretty important to
> get upstream), but the underlying issue that we allow ONESHOT clockevent
> mode to be used while the jiffies clocksource is in use is a concern.

The bug only appears on 31-bit if the kernel is compiled for a G5. All
current distros use at 64-bit kernels with a cpu >= z900. The severity
is relative .. but the bug fix is upstream and Greg picked it up for
his stable releases.

--
blue skies,
Martin.

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