On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:34 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jan 16 2008 13:20, Daniel Walker wrote: > >On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 02:09 +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> When i set jiffies as the current_clocksource, date(1) tells me > >> that wallclock time has stopped, and soon after that, the system > >> becomes unresponsive. This is not seen with CONFIG_NO_HZ disabled. > >> > >> I wonder how can jiffies be used as a clocksource.. Its value > >> depends on the tick and when we turn off ticks, we would stop > >> incrementing jiffies and when we come come out of idle, we update > >> the jiffies by reading the current_clocksource which now is > >> 'jiffies', and hence jiffies wouldn't get updated. Could this be > >> the explanation ? > > > >Your right, It can't be used as a clocksource with nohz , and the system > >will refuse to automatically switch to it .. > > I think that manually changing to jiffies by echoing into sysfs > should also be prohibited.
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting we shouldn't prevent it .. However, there are tons of way to kill your system by manual changing things .. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
