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SubjectRe: 2.6.31-rc5 regression: x86 MCE malfunction on Thinkpad T42p

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:13:07AM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:31:33PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Could the warning be caused by the cpufreq ondemand governor? ISTR
> > > > that one should switch to the performance governor before doing
> > > > any profiling, but I forgot for this test.
> > >
> > > there might be a connection - it could in theory cause sched_clock()
> > > transients and confuse the ring-buffer time-stamping.
> >
> > I'll try tomorrow after a fresh boot if the warning also appears
> > with the performance governor.
>
> Nope, cpufreq was not the culprit. The "Delta way too big!"
> warning in rb_reserve_next_event() happens after suspend-to-RAM.

Yeah, the ring buffer expects the time delta of two different events on
the same page to be less than 2^59 nanosecs apart. But something must have
screwed things up, since 2^59 nanosecs is 6671 days (18 years).

Perhaps coming out of suspend to ram changes the timestamp? Does it reset
the result of sched_clock?

-- Steve



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