linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18 Nasty Lockup

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Date:	Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:48:25 +0300
From:	"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
To:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Greg Schafer <gschafer@....com.au>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 Nasty Lockup

07 Eki 2006 Cts 01:57 tarihinde, john stultz şunları yazmıştı: 
> Hey S.Çağlar,
>
> 	So I just wrote up this test case that will show how skewed the TSCs
> are. I'd be interested if you could run it a few times quickly after a
> fresh boot, and then again a day or so later.
>
> See the header comment for instructions.
>
> And just a fair warning: this runs w/ SCHED_FIFO, and thus has the
> potential to hang your system (while writing it I made a few flubs and
> it hung my system). I believe I've got all of the issues fixed (tested
> on a few systems), but wanted to give you a fair warning before I
> suggest you run this.  :)

Ok ill try this on Monday, thanks!

Cheers
-- 
S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/

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