linux-kernel - Re: any known issues with leap seconds in 2.6.10?

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Message-ID: <20070703164710.GA18585@master.home>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:47:10 +0200
From:	Florian Attenberger <valdyn@...il.com>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: any known issues with leap seconds in 2.6.10?

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:54:45AM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
> I'm just wondering if anyone knows of issues with leap second handling in 
> 2.6.10.  We just had a field incident where a couple of quad-x86 machines 
> went down at just before midnight (UTC) on June 30th...which is when leap 
> seconds would normally be applied.
>
> From our logs it looks like something went crazy while holding the xtime 
> lock.
>
> If anyone knows of issues with that code I'd love to hear about it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
look at the thread  '2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang'

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