Re: 18rc1 soft lockup

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 20:11:12 EST


On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:02:38PM -0700, john stultz wrote:

> > I don't quite understand how this is clock related, soft lockup uses
> > jiffies and there is nothing clock related in the trace???
>
> Hmmm. Well, its easy to check:
>
> Dave, could you comment out the "clocksource_adjust(...)" line in
> kernel/timer.c::update_wall_time() just to check if its the same issue?

I'll try, but just like every other bug I've hit together, it's
non-deterministic. I'll do a half dozen boots to see if turns up again.

Whatever happened to the good old days of reproducable bugs? :)

Dave
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