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Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> .. and we might still lock up under some circumstances. But at least
> from my limited testing, it is infinitely much better, even if it
> might not be perfect. Also note that my "testing" has been writing
> zero to the HPET lock (so the HPET clock difference tends to be pretty
> specific), while my next step is to see what happens when I write
> random values (and a lot of them).
>
> Since I expect that to cause more problems, I thought I'd send this
> RFC out before I start killing my machine again ;)

Ok, not horrible. Although I'd suggest not testing in a terminal
window while running X. The time jumping will confuse X input timing
and the screensaver, to the point that the machine may not be dead,
but it isn't exactly usable. Do it in a virtual console.

Again, making the limit tighter (one second?) and perhaps not trusting
insane values too much at walltime clock update time either, might
make it all work smoother still.

I did manage to confuse systemd with all the garbage the kernel
spewed, with a lot of stuff like:

   systemd-journald[779]: Failed to write entry (9 items, 276 bytes),
ignoring: Invalid argument

showing up in the logs, but I'm writing this without having had to
reboot the machine.

                         Linus