Systems hang due to leap-second livelock.
Issue
- Systems repeatedly crash due to NMI Watchdog detecting a hang. There are two similar backtraces that appear to be related to this issue.
- The first backtrace appears to be in
ktime_get
. - The second backtrace appears to be in
getnstimeofday
.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 through 6.3
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