From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Pasi Savolainen <psavo@iki.fi>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test11 brings out gettimeofday() non-monotonicity
Date: 04 Dec 2003 15:06:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1070579214.1055.94.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnbsv7ng.45b.psavo@varg.dyndns.org>
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 12:54, Pasi Savolainen wrote:
> I (and several others) have had some problems on dual AMD platform with
> time going backwards.
Hmmm. Just to double check, you're not running w/ the amd76x_pm module,
correct? That module has known issues regarding time.
> The 2.6.0-test11 -kernel seems to bring it forth very well. I can
> trigger this behaviour _almost_ every time, simply by running 'updatedb'.
Can you send any more info about the hardware? dmesg and .config as
well, please.
> On the other hand I recently heard from a developer that monotonic_clock
> gave in some cases values of about 0xffffffff00000756, which to me looks
> like a botched 64bit math. This was happening on UP, AMD board.
I'd very much like to hear more details about this one. What was the
test case, etc?
thanks
-john
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2003-12-04 20:54 Pasi Savolainen
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