Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:21:31 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/2] Detect clock skew during suspend |
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Hi!
> If the CMOS timer is changed when the system is suspended to disk in such a > way that the time during the resume turns out to be earlier than the time > before the suspend, the resume often fails and the system hangs (spins > forever in the idle thread) due to driver problems. > > For this reason it seems reasonable to make the timer .resume() routines > detect such situations and prevent them from happening, which is done > in the following two patches for i386 and x86_64.
"Clock skew detected"... Maybe "time going backwards detected" ?
Anyway, patches look good to me, ACK. Pavel
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