Hi, On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:35:17PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:19:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > : acpi_pm.c: check for monotonicity > > : > > : Expand the check for monotonicity by doing ten tests instead of one. > > > > Why? > > Indeed: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/10/77 -- quote: > "Result: catastrophic timer behaviour (a large backwards skip is possible)," > > The current check for monotonicity is way too weak. And at least on one > system out there PMTMR is unuseable, but the current check fails. Just want to say thank you for promptly following up on this issue! I wanted to test your 2nd patch (improved init), but was unable to do so (currently too busy due to large changes, plus distance to production system, downtime NOT appreciated ;). Andreas Mohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
