Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:56:23 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Fw: Re: oops in choose_configuration() |
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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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