Re: [6/6] 2.6.21-rc3: known regressions

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Mar 14 2007 - 13:31:39 EST


On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:16:49PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Adrian Bunk napsal(a):
> >On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:46:17PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >>On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 13:50 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >>>This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to
> >>>2.6.20.
> >>>
> >>>If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
> >>>of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
> >>>of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way
> >>>possibly involved with one or more of these issues.
> >>>
> >>>Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.
> >>>Subject : Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -154983451 ns)
> >>>References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/9/271
> >>>Submitter : Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Status : unknown
> >>That's not a regression. That's an informal message, when the TSC
> >>watchdog detects that the TSC is unreliable.
> >
> >Looking at [1], there's also be a probably related "doesn't boot"
> >problem.
> >My first guess would be commit 6bb74df481223731af6c7e0ff3adb31f6442cfcd
> >"clocksource init adjustments (fix bug #7426)".
> >
> >Jiri, is the message also present with 2.6.21-rc2 (at a different place
> >of the dmesg) for you?
>
> Yes, it's present there too, some lines below the place, where it is placed
> in -rc3.

OK, then it's according to Thomas normal and expected.

> regards,

cu
Adrian

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