>I have a patch pending for the PIT issue. Will add jiffies to this as >well.
yes, please. while trying to analyze a timer issue and learning about that timer stuff, i "killed" my box twice because i didn`t know that "echo jiffies|pit > current_clocksource" is a no-no with dynticks. this happened with vendor kernel and thought i hit a bug, so i tried vanilla but.....same issue. not a big one, but that patch would be a time-saver for those who don`t know... roland >> Per $subject, echo jiffies > current_clocksource pretty thoroughly kills >> my P4 box, and does so with every kernel I have (2.6.22->present). I >> can drive the box via mouse clicks and poke around, but trying to select >> another clocksource thereafter is nogo.. cat current_clocksource emits >> jiffies, and box remains comatose unless prodded. > >I guess your box has high resolution timers and/or dynamic ticks >enabled. In that case we really can not switch to jiffies. We also >have to prevent PIT from being selected. > >I have a patch pending for the PIT issue. Will add jiffies to this as >well. > >We'll fix that in .25 as it requires root user interaction and does >not show up magically. > >Thanks, > tglx _____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
