linux-kernel - Re: [Regression] Negative time on Acer Ferrari One with current -git

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Message-ID: <1274481551.5630.31.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 21 May 2010 15:39:11 -0700
From:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Regression] Negative time on Acer Ferrari One with current
 -git

On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 15:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 May 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > Trying to boot current -git on Acer Ferrari One (64-bit), I get mount errors
> > for all filesystems telling me that "now = (null) is in the future" and when
> > run 'date' it says: "date: time <long negative number> is out of range".
> > 
> > Any ideas anyone?
> 
> No ideas, but apart from the obvious "maybe you can pin it down a bit with 
> a few bisection compiles", it's almost certainly through the timer tree 
> merge from Thomas, which included various wall-clock-time changes from 
> John Stultz & co.
> 
> I don't see anything else that would likely affect any wall-clock time, 
> but who knows..
> 
> John, Thomas? Ring any bells?

Hrm..  From my queue, I'd probably try reverting the following first:

6a867a3|| time: Remove xtime_cache

Rafael: I assume 2.6.34 is fine?

thanks
-john


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