From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759962Ab0JZPtZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:49:25 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:47020 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753076Ab0JZPtX (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:49:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:48:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Markus Trippelsdorf cc: Borislav Petkov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "hpa@linux.intel.com" , Ingo Molnar , Andreas Herrmann , John Stultz Subject: Re: Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -8589361717 ns) in current git In-Reply-To: <20101026135808.GB1672@arch.trippelsdorf.de> Message-ID: References: <20101026112052.GA1672@arch.trippelsdorf.de> <20101026131843.GC17852@aftab> <20101026135808.GB1672@arch.trippelsdorf.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 03:18:43PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > otherwise, I don't see anything strange in your dmesg. Unless tglx has a > > better idea, I'd ask you to bisect it. 5618 changesets shouldn't be that > > much but I don't know, if the issue appears every several hours it could > > still be tedious. > > That would be a several week long process, as the issue appears ~ every > 2 days here on this machine running 24/7. There is only a single commit in that area post 2.6.36: 8af3c153baf95374eff20a37f00c59a295b52756 But I have a hard time how this should make this happen. John ? Thanks, tglx