Does the RHEL guest running on VMware using the TSC clock source reboot or panic when 'sched_clock()' overflow after an uptime of 208.5 days?
Issue
- Does the RHEL guest running on VMware using the TSC clock source reboot or panic when 'sched_clock()' overflow after an uptime of 208.5 days?
- Does the issue tracked by the KCS doc 68466 also affect the RHEL guest virtual machine running on VMware ESXi?
Environment
Below versions of RHEL guest running on VMware ESXi
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (some kernels)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (some kernels)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 (some kernels)
- With TSC clock source
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (some kernels)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 (some kernels)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 (some kernels)
- With TSC clock source
- Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.3 Realtime kernel
- An approximate uptime of around 208.5 days
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