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

Thomas Gleixner
2007-07-05T20:10:33Z

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:48 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Clemens Koller wrote:
>
> > Okay, we all survived Y2K and this little glitch. Puh! ;-)
> > Can you please explain in which configuration this problem got triggered.
>
> As far as I can tell many kernel versions contained the source code bug.
> (I'd like some more information on exactly what the problem was if
> anyone cares to share..the proposed patch didn't give much in the way of
> specifics.)

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.

tglx