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Date:      Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:56:51 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SW_WATCHDOG vs new eventtimer code
Message-ID:  <4E79A6D3.2060102@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E79A2F9.4010802@FreeBSD.org>
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on 21/09/2011 11:40 Alexander Motin said the following:
> It looks like your system was out for about 15 seconds or for some
> reason system uptime jumped 15 seconds forward. Have you done anything
> special at the moment or have you seen anything strange in system
> behavior?

Nope.  I just looked away for a second :-)

> What timecounter are you using? I see you are using HPET
> eventtimer, but on what hardware (is it per-CPU or global)?

The timecounter is the new TSC-low.
The HPET eventtimer was global, I think.  It is an ICH9-based system.

> Building kernel with KTR_SPARE2 ktrace enabled should help to collect
> valuable info about timers behavior before the crash.

I will try to debug this further using your suggestion.
Thank you!

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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