* Re: Clock has stopped (time/date looping over 5 secon
@ 2008-04-08 21:47 Roland
2008-04-16 17:20 ` john stultz
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From: Roland @ 2008-04-08 21:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rogerheflin, joel.greene; +Cc: linux-kernel, pavel
> It _appears_ that there is a race in the kernel that can be triggered by
> any number of hardware issues. There's another thread by Gregory Stark
> with the same symptoms - he thinks his was fixed by replacing a bad
> DIMM.
i`d like to mention that we may have a repro-case (if it`s the same issue i
hit within vmware):
see http://communities.vmware.com/message/909403
regards
roland
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* Re: Clock has stopped (time/date looping over 5 secon
2008-04-08 21:47 Clock has stopped (time/date looping over 5 secon Roland
@ 2008-04-16 17:20 ` john stultz
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: john stultz @ 2008-04-16 17:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Roland; +Cc: rogerheflin, joel.greene, linux-kernel, pavel
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Roland <devzero@web.de> wrote:
> > It _appears_ that there is a race in the kernel that can be triggered by
> > any number of hardware issues. There's another thread by Gregory Stark
> > with the same symptoms - he thinks his was fixed by replacing a bad
> > DIMM.
> >
>
> i`d like to mention that we may have a repro-case (if it`s the same issue i
> hit within vmware):
>
> see http://communities.vmware.com/message/909403
The looping ~5seconds sounds like nanosecond overflows. Might it be
that vmware isn't delivering timer interrupts? Could this be an
interaction w/ hrt or no_hz?
thanks
-john
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