On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 02:50:57PM -0500, miny...@acm.org wrote: > From: Corey Minyard <cminy...@mvista.com> > > If the sched_clock time starts at a large value, the kernel will spin > in sched_avg_update for a long time while rq->age_stamp catches up > with rq->clock. > > The comment in kernel/sched/clock.c says that there is no strict promise > that it starts at zero. So initialize rq->age_stamp when a cpu starts up > to avoid this. > > I was seeing long delays on a simulator that didn't start the clock at > zero. This might also be an issue on reboots on processors that don't > re-initialize the timer to zero on reset, and when using kexec. > > Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminy...@mvista.com>
This patch made my cris-defconfig build fail.
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