Re: 2.6.25-rc5-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Gabriel C wrote:
> > Hmm. Can you please apply the patch below. It add some more info and
> > triggers the sysrq-q timer list printout when the watchdog
> > triggers. That might us give some insight into this.
> 
> Sorry for the lag , I was out the whole day.
> 
> Here is what I've found in dmesg ( the box was idling at that time , as said I was not around ):
> 
> ...
> 
> [34528.893366] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 4686697613 ns) E:34204592 J:34210723

Ok. The timer got delayed. It got delayed because it is initialized as
a deferrable timer, which is obviously wrong. Sigh, I signed off on
that commit myself without thinking about the consequences.

Can you please apply the patch below on top of the others?

> ...
> 
> And that made irqbalance go mad which got killed by OOM , very strange.

Ouch.

revert: 1077f5a917b7c630231037826b344b2f7f5b903f

---
 kernel/time/clocksource.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/clocksource.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static void clocksource_check_watchdog(s
 			if (watchdog)
 				del_timer(&watchdog_timer);
 			watchdog = cs;
-			init_timer_deferrable(&watchdog_timer);
+			init_timer(&watchdog_timer);
 			watchdog_timer.function = clocksource_watchdog;
 
 			/* Reset watchdog cycles */