Re: 2.6.25.2 - Jiffies/Time jumping back and forth (Regereesion from 2.6.24)

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> > no this looks different. As soon as the timesource is detected, I see non-zero 
> > timestamps
> > in dmesg, but they look smaller and jump in both directions. And I have never 
> > seen this before
> > 2.6.25.
> > 
> > It actually might be a good idea to get the dmesg output from 2.6.24.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Martin
> 
>  interesting - maybe related to clocksources. The HPET seems to be detected later in 2.6.25:
> 
> 2.6.24:
> 
> [    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
> [    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
> -->[    0.000000] hpet clockevent registered
> -->[    0.000000] TSC calibrated against HPET
 
> 2.6.25.2:
> 
> [    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
> [    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
> -->[    0.000000] TSC calibrated against PM_TIMER
 
That's odd indeed. Is HPET not registered at all in 2.6.25 or does it just happen late ?

please provide the output of:
/sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
/sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource

Thanks,
	tglx