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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Subject: Re: Large backwards time steps panic 2.5.73
Date: 24 Jun 2003 12:50:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056484203.1033.192.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1056472020.2085.81.camel@mulgrave>

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 09:26, James Bottomley wrote:
> I've got one of those fun machines with a failing bios batter that
> always boots up with the BIOS clock about a year into the future.
> 
> 2.5.73 always panics around the time ntpdate sets the clock back to its
> normal value with:
> 
> kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:377!
> Kernel addresses on the stack:

[snip]

> Reverting the patch
> 
> ChangeSet 1.1348.6.16 2003/06/20 22:13:39 akpm@digeo.com
>   [PATCH] revert adjtimex changes
>   
>   From: John Stultz, George Anzinger, Eric Piel
>  
> Fixes the problem for me.
> 
> The above trace is from a HP PA-RISC machine running 2.5.73-pa1.

Hmm. Odd. What is the HZ frequency on this machine? 

thanks
-john



  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-24 16:26 James Bottomley
2003-06-24 19:50 ` john stultz [this message]
2003-06-24 20:07   ` James Bottomley
2003-06-24 20:06     ` john stultz
2003-06-25 15:49       ` James Bottomley

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