Re: [Regression] Negative time on Acer Ferrari One with current-git

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat May 22 2010 - 10:18:34 EST


On Sat, 22 May 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 May 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >
> > > Trying to boot current -git on Acer Ferrari One (64-bit), I get mount errors
> > > for all filesystems telling me that "now = (null) is in the future" and when
> > > run 'date' it says: "date: time <long negative number> is out of range".
> > >
> > > Any ideas anyone?
> >
> > No ideas, but apart from the obvious "maybe you can pin it down a bit with
> > a few bisection compiles", it's almost certainly through the timer tree
> > merge from Thomas, which included various wall-clock-time changes from
> > John Stultz & co.
> >
> > I don't see anything else that would likely affect any wall-clock time,
> > but who knows..
> >
> > John, Thomas? Ring any bells?
>
> Went through the pile and nothing stands out.
>
> The system has an AMD X2 with the jinxed C1E, so I'd rather suspect
> that we managed to break C1E again.
>
> Just tried to boot -git on my X2 machine and it does not come
> up. Investigating.

Second boot worked, I love heisenbugs. :(

Rafael, can you check whether the C1E idle is selected. Also which
clocksource is used ?

Thanks,

tglx
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