Re: BUG in check_monotonic_clock()

From: john stultz
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 14:09:07 EST


On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 11:02 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:52 -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:48 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:38 -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey Daniel,
> > > > Thanks for the bug report. Could you tell me what clocksource was being
> > > > used at the time? I'm guessing its the TSC, but usually we'll see
> > > > separate TSC inconsistency messages in the log.
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > > -john
> > > >
> > >
> > > I had CONFIG_HPET_TIMER turned on. Also X86_TSC was on.
> >
> > So, booting up the box, what is the last message that looks like:
> >
> > Time: xyz clocksource has been installed.
>
> Last one is,
> kernel: Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.

That's what I was guessing. So there aren't any TSC inconsistency
messages in the dmesg? Odd.


> Isn't there a handy proc entry for this?

Yep, there's a sysfs entry:

/sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource

thanks
-john

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