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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] TSC sched_clock overflow workaround

* John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hey Thomas, Ingo,
> I thought Peter had sent this on, but apparently its not landed yet, so
> I wanted to make sure you got it.
>
> After ~208 days, the sched_clock multiplication overflows and
> causes some false positives in the softlockup watchdog. I don't
> think there are any actual panics going on, as an earlier related
> div by zero issue was already fixed. However, the false positives
> do continue to worry folks.
>
> We still need a proper fix, which will probably be in part making
> sched_clock do periodic accumulation, as well as possibly changing
> users of sched_clock (like the softlockup watchdog) use timekeeping
> timestamps rather then sched_clock.

I'd *much* rather see a real fix for this than an ugly workaround
that disables a very real speedup.

Thanks,

Ingo


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