Re: [Regression] Negative time on Acer Ferrari One with current -git

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sat May 22 2010 - 13:53:03 EST


On Saturday 22 May 2010, john stultz wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 15:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 21 May 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >
> > > Trying to boot current -git on Acer Ferrari One (64-bit), I get mount errors
> > > for all filesystems telling me that "now = (null) is in the future" and when
> > > run 'date' it says: "date: time <long negative number> is out of range".
> > >
> > > Any ideas anyone?
> >
> > No ideas, but apart from the obvious "maybe you can pin it down a bit with
> > a few bisection compiles", it's almost certainly through the timer tree
> > merge from Thomas, which included various wall-clock-time changes from
> > John Stultz & co.
> >
> > I don't see anything else that would likely affect any wall-clock time,
> > but who knows..
> >
> > John, Thomas? Ring any bells?
>
> Hrm.. From my queue, I'd probably try reverting the following first:
>
> 6a867a3|| time: Remove xtime_cache

That doesn't help.

> Rafael: I assume 2.6.34 is fine?

Yes, it is.

Thanks,
Rafael
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