Re: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:48 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Clemens Koller wrote:
> 
> > Okay, we all survived Y2K and this little glitch. Puh! ;-)
> > Can you please explain in which configuration this problem got triggered.
> 
> As far as I can tell many kernel versions contained the source code bug. 
>   (I'd like some more information on exactly what the problem was if 
> anyone cares to share..the proposed patch didn't give much in the way of 
> specifics.)

It only happens with CONFIG_HIGHRES_TIMERS=y otherwise clock_was_set()
is a NOP. So only the 2.6.21 kernel and i386 and ARM are affected.

	tglx


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