linux-kernel - Re: setting jiffies as the clocksource stops time

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:23:28 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Balaji Rao <balajirrao@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: setting jiffies as the clocksource stops time

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Balaji Rao wrote:
> When i set jiffies as the current_clocksource, date(1) tells me that wallclock time has stopped, and soon after that, the 
> system becomes unresponsive. This is not seen with CONFIG_NO_HZ disabled.
> 
> This happens in 2.6.24-rc4,rc5, and even in rc8.

It happens since 2.6.21-rc1 on 32 bit.
 
> Thomas, Ingo what are your thoughts on this ?

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/16/123

Thanks,
	tglx
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