Re: [FALSE ALARM] Re: HPET (?) related hangs and breakage in 2.6.35,36

From: Andrew Lutomirski
Date: Wed Nov 10 2010 - 14:03:16 EST


On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:48:00PM -0500, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
>> > Clocksource: tsc unstable (delta = -34355296774 ns)
>> > Switching: to clocksource hpet
>>
>> Please disregard -- this is a bug in nouveau (or drm) not hpet.  I'll
>> send a bug report to the maintainers.
>
> Interesting! Joerg was complaining about similar symptoms with .36 today
> too.

Well, there is a clocksource sort-of-bug that could cause confusion:
when something totally unrelated to clocksources goes out to lunch,
the clocksource watchdog decides that the clocksource is unstable and
complains, steering everyone toward filing the wrong bug.

tglx?

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