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SubjectRe: Fw: Re: oops in choose_configuration()
Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 08:47 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 21:00 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is there something else I've missed?
>>
>>Maybe. Does this add anything to the picture? During boot,
>>recalc_task_prio() is called with now < p->timestamp. This causes quite
>>a stir. If you WARN_ON(now < p->timestamp) or printk, you'll have a
>>dead box due to hundreds of gripes as things churn. Adding...
>>
>>if (unlikely(now < p->timestamp))
>> __sleep_time = 0ULL;
>>
>>...turns it into exactly one gripe.
>
>
> Nope. Further research shows that this is just a speed-step problem.
> Still, the scheduler needs to protect itself, because even with all of
> the speed-step stuff enabled, these continue to occurr even after
> boot-up if you switch to a low power setting, which screws up the
> scheduler.
>

sched_clock needs to be fixed, rather than scheduler.

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