linux-kernel - Re: Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -8589361717 ns) in current git

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Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:24:36 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"hpa@...ux.intel.com" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
Subject: Re: Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -8589361717 ns) in current
 git

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 15:58 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:

> > > Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
> > > Linux version 2.6.36-05618-gb18cae4-dirty (markus@...h.trippelsdorf.de) (gcc version 4.5.1 (GCC) ) #41 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 26 06:51:47 CEST 2010
> > 
> >  ...-dirty means you have some changes ontop of b18cae4. What are those?
> 
> The SCHED_AUTOGROUP patches from Mike Galbraith.

Turns out that patch is still racy btw.  Very hard to trigger, but you
should remove it for safety and test result integrity anyway.

	-Mike

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