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SubjectRe: CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME broken on git HEAD ?
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 13:00 +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
>
>>> >From my log 2.6.26-rc1-00065-g5717922 was fine.
>>>
>>
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at d0000000 (gap: cf600000:2f800000)
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 41732 bytes of per cpu data
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdb1 ro debug vga=0x317
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000000] Preemptible RCU implementation.
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000000] Extended CMOS year: 2000
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000000] TSC calibrated against PM_TIMER
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000014] time.c: Detected 2499.952 MHz processor.
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000032] console [tty0] enabled
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000999] Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000999] Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
>>> May 6 00:13:14 thor kernel: [ 0.000999] Checking aperture...
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>>> dmesg shows here :
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at d0000000 (gap: cf600000:2f800000)
>>>>> [ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
>>>>> [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 42756 bytes of per cpu data
>>>>> [ 0.000000] NR_CPUS: 8, nr_cpu_ids: 4
>>>>> [4294014.506571] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1010753
>>>>> [4294014.506571] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdb1 ro debug vga=0x317
>>>>> [4294014.506571] Initializing CPU#0
>>>>> [4294014.506571] Preemptible RCU implementation.
>>>>> [4294014.506571] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
>
>
>> I've bisected it.
>
>> cat ./.git/refs/bisect/bad
>> 3e51f33fcc7f55e6df25d15b55ed10c8b4da84cd
>>
>> git show 3e51f33fcc7f55e6df25d15b55ed10c8b4da84cd
>> commit 3e51f33fcc7f55e6df25d15b55ed10c8b4da84cd
>> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
>> Date: Sat May 3 18:29:28 2008 +0200
>>
>> sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
>>
>> this replaces the rq->clock stuff (and possibly cpu_clock()).
>>
>> - architectures that have an 'imperfect' hardware clock can set
>> CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
>>
>> - the 'jiffie' window might be superfulous when we update tick_gtod
>> before the __update_sched_clock() call in sched_clock_tick()
>>
>> - cpu_clock() might be implemented as:
>>
>> sched_clock_cpu(smp_processor_id())
>>
>> if the accuracy proves good enough - how far can TSC drift in a
>> single jiffie when considering the filtering and idle hooks?
>>
>> [ mingo@elte.hu: various fixes and cleanups ]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
>> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>>
>
> Ok, so the issue is that the clock doesn't start at 0, but at:
> 4294014.506571 ?

At least on my box , yes.

There is a similar report http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/100 , there it jumps to 42949372.961619


> I guess that's a side-effect of using ktime to base the clock off.
> Thomas, do we have a clock that is uptime based?
>

Gabriel


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