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SubjectRe: 2.6.25.9: system clocks works normally then speeds up 4x...
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"john stultz" <johnstul@us.ibm.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> wrote:
> >
> > Symptoms:
> >
> > The system boots fine. Clock seems to run normally.
> >
> > Then after a random amount of time (on the current boot, 3 days),
> > clock starts to be running 2-4x faster (on the current boot, 4x).
> >
> > I have tried booting with "nohz=off highres=off" but it does not
> > help.
>
> Could you provide the output from the following:
> sudo cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/*

Sure.

It is:
available: jiffies tsc
current: jiffies

> Did this issue occur with 2.6.24 or earlier kernels?

No. It started with 2.6.25.

Interestingly:

I've just modified the current clocksource to tsc and the clock went
back to its normal speed.

Then I reset the current clocksource to jiffies, and the clock went
back to its (wrong) 4x speed.

So it looks like the kernel is counting jiffies 4x too fast.

Phil.


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