Re: [BISECTION RESULT] sched: revert cpu_clock topre-27ec4407790d075c325e1f4da0a19c56953cce23 state

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 12:26:24 EST



* Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I'm happy to test any better patches.
>
> Linus just took a patch from my tree that should solve this
> once and for all for ia64.
>
> commit 10617bbe84628eb18ab5f723d3ba35005adde143
> Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Aug 12 10:34:20 2008 -0700
>
> [IA64] Ensure cpu0 can access per-cpu variables in early boot code
>
>
> When you get a chance please test with your config against this
> tree just to confirm that this is fixed.

there's also Peter's other patch upstream since yesterday (and included
in -rc3) which should solve the same problem:

| commit c1955a3d4762e7a9bf84035eb3c4886a900f0d15
| Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
| Date: Mon Aug 11 08:59:03 2008 +0200
|
| sched_clock: delay using sched_clock()
|
| Some arch's can't handle sched_clock() being called too early - delay
| this until sched_clock_init() has been called.

so i'd be mighty surprised if this dual firepower of commits didnt at
least weaken this bug somewhat! ;-)

Ingo
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