Re: False positive (well not really) on RT backward clock check

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 09:45 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Ingo,
> 
> Just want to let you know that I got the warning of the clock going
> backwards on boot up.  But it happened right after I got this message.
> 
> Ktimers: Switched to high resolution mode CPU 0
> 
> So I'm assuming that the clock can go backwards by the switch to high res
> timers.

Can you provide the boot messages up to the switch please ? It's more
likely that this is the switch of the clocksource from jiffies to TSC.
The ktimers high res switch is done in this context.

	tglx


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