tst-nanosleep, tst-clock_nanosleep Failures

[Andreas Jaeger]

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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