From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751495AbWBMAOS (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:14:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751499AbWBMAOS (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:14:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:26560 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751495AbWBMAOR (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:14:17 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:13:26 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Roger Leigh Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew Message-Id: <20060212161326.279fcb9f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <87pslspkj5.fsf@hardknott.home.whinlatter.ukfsn.org> References: <87pslspkj5.fsf@hardknott.home.whinlatter.ukfsn.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roger Leigh wrote: > > When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini; > Freescale 7447A): > > $ date && touch f && ls -l f && rm -f f && date > Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23 > Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 > > Notice the timestamp is 3 minutes in the future compared with the > system time. "make" is not a very happy bunny running on this kernel > due to every touched file being 3 minutes in the future. I've had several spates of time-going-nuts on ppc64. The most recent one was because someone went and fiddled with Kconfig naming and I lost the RTC driver. What does `grep RTC .config' say?