linux-kernel - RE: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:36:42 -0400
From:	"Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" <Vincent.Fortier1@...GC.CA>
To:	"Arne Georg Gleditsch" <argggh@...phinics.no>,
	"Florian Attenberger" <valdyn@...il.com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org] De la part de 
> Arne Georg Gleditsch
> 
> Florian Attenberger <valdyn@...il.com> writes:
> > yep, controlled by ntpd.
> > You're right according to
> > ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.33
> > that event shouldn't have been there.
> 
> I'm not all that versed in ntp-ish, but it appears that the 
> leap second insertion should be propagated through the ntp protocol.
> Whether the leap second in question came from a ntp server 
> giving out wrong data or from a misinterpretation or bug in 
> ntpd is of course hard to say, but either way turning the 
> clock back is unlikely to reconstruct the circumstances.  An 
> interesting exercise might be to code up a small program to 
> call adjtimex with timex.status |= STA_INS, to see if this 
> can trigger the problem.  (The bogus leap second might be a 
> red herring entirely, of course...)

You are probably right, I did tried to reproduce the problem without
success...

Although it is wierd that it happend only on 2.6.21 kernels... It did
not happend on any of my workstations/servers running either 2.6.18 or
2.6.20.  

Could dynticks be involved?

- vin
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