Re: [PATCH] Work around for periodic do_gettimeofday hang

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Nov 26 2004 - 22:48:10 EST


On Mer, 2004-11-24 at 16:49, James Bottomley wrote:
> On the voyager systems particularly (but also on some of my slower
> parisc boxes) I periodically get hangs where the system just seems to
> stop (although it does remain able to execute alt-sysrq). The traces
> always seem to implicate do_gettimeofday in the xtime seqlock.

What are the other CPUs doing in this case ?

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