Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using the TSC clock source reboots or panics when 'sched_clock()' overflows after an uptime of 208.5 days
Issue
- Linux Kernel panics when
sched_clock()overflows after an uptime of around 208.5 days - Red Hat Enterprise Linux system reboots with sched_clock() overflow after an uptime of around 208.5 days
- This symptom may happen on a system using the Time Stamp Counter (TSC) clock source
- Some processes may generate following log message:
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#N stuck for 4278190091s!
Environment
- 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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