[PATCH] fix TSC clocksource bug

Alessio Igor Bogani abogani at texware.it
Tue Apr 8 15:31:23 UTC 2008


Hi Tim,

2008/4/8, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>:
[...]
>  >>  >     x86: tsc prevent time going backwards
>  >
>  > IMHO That patch should be reverted. As reported by Ingo Molnar on LKML
>  > that cause suspend regressions.
>
> Drat! Alessio - I'm at LFS this week. Can you provide a URL for this
>  discussion? We need to make a decision on this in the next couple of days.

Not real discussion but a bug report on Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10410

And a commit that revert the fix in mainline:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5b13d863573e746739ccfc24ac1a9473cfee8df1

Ciao,
Alessio




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