Re: Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -8589361717 ns) in currentgit

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Oct 26 2010 - 11:49:29 EST


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
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