Hi Andrew, Could you please pick these patches up through your tree?
Thanks, Cyril On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 14:34 +1100, Cyril Bur wrote: > When the hypervisor pauses a virtualised kernel the kernel will observe a jump > in timebase, this can cause spurious messages from the softlockup detector. > > Whilst these messages are harmless, they are accompanied with a stack trace > which causes undue concern and more problematically the stack trace in the > guest has nothing to do with the observed problem and can only be misleading. > > Futhermore, on POWER8 this is completely avoidable with the introduction of > the Virtual Time Base (VTB) register. > > V2: > Remove the export of running_clock > Added #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES and optimised the non lpar + vtb cases. > Replaced the use of sched_clock_with local_clock it was used originally > in > the softlockup detector. > > Cyril Bur (2): > Add another clock for use with the soft lockup watchdog. > powerpc: add running_clock for powerpc to prevent spurious softlockup > warnings > > arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/sched.h | 1 + > kernel/sched/clock.c | 13 +++++++++++++ > kernel/watchdog.c | 2 +- > 4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
