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

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Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:31:20 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
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

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:16:49PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 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.

OK, then it's according to Thomas normal and expected.

> regards,

cu
Adrian

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