linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

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Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:15:15 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@...ian.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@...uxbox.cz>,
	seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com,
	Hervé Commowick <hcommowick@...sec.fr>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:25:31 -0700 john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@...ian.org> wrote:
> > We too experienced problems with just the G6 blades at near 215 days uptime
> > (on the 19th of April), all at the same time. From our investigation, it
> > seems that their cpu_clocks jumped suddenly far in the future and then
> > almost immediately rolled over due to wrapping around 64-bits.
> >
> > Although all of their (G6s) clocks wrapped around *at the same time*, only
> > one
> > of them actually crashed at the time, with a second one crashing just a few
> > days later, on the 28th.
> >
> > Three of them had the following on their logs:
> > Apr 18 20:56:07 hn-05 kernel: [17966378.581971] tap0: no IPv6 routers
> > present
> > Apr 19 10:15:42 hn-05 kernel: [18446743935.365550] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4
> > stuck for 17163091968s! [kvm:25913]
> 
> So, did this issue ever get any traction or get resolved?
> 

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37382 is similar - a
divide-by-zero in update_sg_lb_stats() after 209 days uptime.

Can we change this stuff so that the timers wrap after 10 minutes
uptime, like INITIAL_JIFFIES?
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