Re: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

Thomas Gleixner
2007-07-05T21:18:18Z

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:02 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > It only happens with CONFIG_HIGHRES_TIMERS=y otherwise clock_was_set()
> > is a NOP. So only the 2.6.21 kernel and i386 and ARM are affected.
>
> Are you certain?

At least for anything >= 2.6.16

> Vanilla 2.6.10 shows a clock_was_set() function. Does it just not call
> the dangerous code or something?

Ouch, the old posix timer code might be affected as well, but I did not
look.

> Also, our modified 2.6.10 has the high res timers patch applied, but the
> config option is turned off and we were still affected.

You mean Anzingers high res patches. No idea about those.

tglx