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From: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
To: Caspar Zhang <caspar@casparzhang.com>
Cc: LTP List <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] timers: add a new test case leapsec_timer
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:24:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFA40DD.3030408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FF6B720.3040705@casparzhang.com>

On 07/06/2012 06:00 PM, Caspar Zhang wrote:
> On 07/08/2012 08:23 AM, Lingzhu Xiang wrote:
>> Note that this test case might cause kernel freeze. Running with -c 5 will
>> highly increase the likelihood of that.
>
> IIRC, -c is broken, is `-i 5` able to freeze the kernel? If yes, it
> would be better to add a new entry to $LTPROOT/runtest/timers or update
> the original entry w/ `-i 5` option.

Nope. It seems the hard hang caused by concurrent leap second is unresolved
in upstream "NOTE: Some reports have been of a hard hang right at or before
the leapsecond. I've not been able to reproduce or diagnose this..." [1]

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/4/78

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-09  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-08  0:09 [LTP] [PATCH] timers: add a new test case leapsec_timer Lingzhu Xiang
2012-07-08  0:23 ` Lingzhu Xiang
2012-07-06 10:00   ` Caspar Zhang
2012-07-09  2:24     ` Lingzhu Xiang [this message]
2012-10-15 12:15 ` chrubis

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