On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Stehle Vincent-B46079 wrote: So up to this point everything looks ok. mxc timer is the broadcast and the local timer is preferred over the dummy timer. But after switching the clocksource: > Switched to clocksource mxc_timer1 > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/time/clockevents.c:212 clockevents_program_event+0x134/0x148() That's when clockevents_program_event() is called with a negative expiry time. And its called from: [<800613f4>] (clockevents_program_event+0x134/0x148) from [<80061900>] (tick_handle_periodic+0x64/0x88) Which calculates the expiry value via: next = ktime_add(dev->next_event, tick_period); So something is hosed there. Can you please apply the patch below and provide the output? Thanks, tglx --- diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c index edd45f6..5617628 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c @@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ void tick_handle_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev) */ next = ktime_add(dev->next_event, tick_period); for (;;) { + if (next.tv64 < 0) { + pr_err("next %llx nevt %llx per %llx nxtp %llx now %llx\n", + next.tv64, dev->next_event.tv64, + tick_period.tv64, tick_next_period.tv64, + ktime_get().tv64); + } + if (!clockevents_program_event(dev, next, false)) return; /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html