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From: "Victor Mataré" <matare@lih.rwth-aachen.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: clock freezes??
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:07:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A69C03E.3090706@lih.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)

Hello,

I have a dual Xeon server (old Xeon HT) with an Intel E7505 chipset,
with hrtimer and dynticks enabled. On bootup, the kernel
(2.6.29-gentoo-r5) tells me it's using the PM-Timer bug workaround, but
then it uses tsc as clocksource. Now the clock was running slow for
about 15sec/12hrs, which is quite a lot. So in a careless moment, I just
tried "echo jiffies > clocksource0/current_clocksource". This froze the
system time. Now I couldn't switch back to tsc or acpi_pm, echoing those
was just ignored. Subsequently, the entire system locked up and I needed
to reboot.

Now what does that mean? Is this supposed to happen? Should I disable
dynticks and/or hrtimer?

thanks...

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Victor Mataré
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             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24 14:07 Victor Mataré [this message]
2009-07-28 21:46 ` clock freezes?? john stultz
2009-08-11 15:39   ` Victor Mataré
2009-08-11 16:42     ` john stultz
2009-08-18 13:36       ` Victor Mataré
2009-08-19  1:08         ` john stultz
2009-08-18 15:43       ` Victor Mataré
2009-08-19  1:08         ` john stultz

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