Re: [clocksource] jiffies as clocksource kills box

2008-02-02 Thread devzero
>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 happen

Re: [clocksource] jiffies as clocksource kills box

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Greetings, > > 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 clockso

[clocksource] jiffies as clocksource kills box

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Galbraith
Greetings, 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