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From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
To: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com>
Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com, libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: tst-nanosleep, tst-clock_nanosleep Failures
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8he6t4vy0.fsf@gromit.moeb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF8D96D34E.CEEBD0E0-ON86256D44.00687296-86256D44.0069C7EB@us.ibm.com> (Steve Munroe's message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:15:19 -0500")

Steve Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com> writes:

> Is anyone else seeing make check failures in tst-nanosleep and 
> tst-clock_nanosleep?
>
> I see these fail at various times (7.5%+ failure rate) on PPC64 (both 2.4 
> and 2.5) kernels running either PPC32 or PPC64 applications. These are all 
> SMP machines. In each case the measured time averages 0.5 jiffies less 
> than 1 second! 
>
> The nanosleep code is in the kernel is arch independent so I would expect 
> this test to fail on the SMP platforms?

Perhaps your clock is going wrong?  The time keeping code is
architecture dependend...

Andreas
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