linux-kernel - Re: [6/6] 2.6.21-rc3: known regressions

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Message-ID: <45F7E7B1.3030600@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:16:49 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Florian Lohoff <flo@...822.org>
Subject: Re: [6/6] 2.6.21-rc3: known regressions

Adrian Bunk napsal(a):
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:46:17PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 13:50 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20.
>>>
>>> If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
>>> of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
>>> of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way
>>> possibly involved with one or more of these issues.
>>>
>>> Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.
>>> Subject    : Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -154983451 ns)
>>> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/9/271
>>> Submitter  : Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
>>> Status     : unknown
>> That's not a regression. That's an informal message, when the TSC
>> watchdog detects that the TSC is unreliable. 
> 
> Looking at [1], there's also be a probably related "doesn't boot" 
> problem.
> My first guess would be commit 6bb74df481223731af6c7e0ff3adb31f6442cfcd
> "clocksource init adjustments (fix bug #7426)".
> 
> Jiri, is the message also present with 2.6.21-rc2 (at a different place 
> of the dmesg) for you?

Yes, it's present there too, some lines below the place, where it is placed 
in -rc3.

regards,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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