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

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Message-ID: <20070314180209.GA15640@paradigm.rfc822.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:02:09 +0100
From:	Florian Lohoff <flo@...822.org>
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>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [6/6] 2.6.21-rc3: known regressions

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:44:17PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 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?

With the current git of today the halt on boot is gone. I am running 
it now ...

Flo
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