Re: PROBLEM: skew message does not handle negative ns skew

From: Chris Bainbridge
Date: Thu Jun 08 2023 - 05:42:08 EST


On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 at 20:04, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That is a bit user-unfriendly. Does the following fix address this
> issue at your end?

[ 2.095149] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU3: Marking
clocksource 'tsc' as unstable because the skew is too large:
[ 2.095152] clocksource: 'hpet' wd_nsec:
515998611 wd_now: 1c29fb9 wd_last: 151e3b8 mask: ffffffff
[ 2.095154] clocksource: 'tsc' cs_nsec:
515124524 cs_now: 8af4c89f9 cs_last: 874f8e80b mask: ffffffffffffffff
[ 2.095155] clocksource: Clocksource 'tsc'
skewed -874087 ns (0 ms) over watchdog 'hpet' interval of 515998611 ns
(515 ms)