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Message-ID: <1f1b08da0902261319k7a60d80xaafc1101facfd2d9@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:19:22 -0800
From:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc6

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jesper Krogh wrote:
>>>
>>> 2.6.26.8 doesnt have this problem.
>>>
>>> The "current_clocsource" is the same on both systems.
>>>
>>> $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
>>> tsc
>>
>> What does the frequency calibrate to? It should be in the dmesg. Does it
>> differ by a big amount?
>
> Non-working:
> $ dmesg | grep -i freq
> [    0.004007] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using
> timer frequency.. 4620.05 BogoMIPS (lpj=9240104)
>
> 2.6.26.8 doesn't have that information.

I'm surprised the clocksource watchdog isn't catching it.

What's the output from:
cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource

Also mind sending the full dmesg for both kernels?

thanks
-john
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