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[Xen-users] Timer ISR: Timer went backwards [NetBSD 3.1 / Xen 2.0.7]

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Subject: [Xen-users] Timer ISR: Timer went backwards [NetBSD 3.1 / Xen 2.0.7]
From: Miguel Cruz <mnc@xxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 16:09:12 +0800 (MYT)
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I'm using a NetBSD 3.1 dom0 with Xen 2.0.7 (so far as I know, the latest supported combination for the NetBSD platform).

Linux domUs have their logs fill with messages like this:

May 8 02:01:39 debian kernel: Timer ISR: Time went backwards: -316000 131542680000000 9684000 131542690000000 May 8 02:01:39 debian kernel: Timer ISR: Time went backwards: -277000 131542680000000 9723000 131542690000000

They come in different amounts, sometimes a handful, sometimes hundreds. Over the space of a day or two, the logs swell to gigantic sizes.

I have been googling this for a while and it seems like I am the only person in the universe to experience this after 2005. So apparently time really has gone backwards - about two years' worth.

Back in 2005, one of the people experiencing the problem was asked to provide the output of 'xm dmesg | grep timer'. However, when I try 'xm dmesg', I just get 'Error: Internal Server Error', which doesn't seem like a good sign. Is it?

Someone was also asked to provide the contents of /proc/interrupts from a domU, here it is:

debian:~# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
128:          1     Dynamic-irq  misdirect
129:       1394     Dynamic-irq  ctrl-if
130:   89007332     Dynamic-irq  timer
131:        803     Dynamic-irq  blkif
132:       3782     Dynamic-irq  eth0
NMI:          0
ERR:          0

For the domUs I am using the vmlinuz-2.6.11.12-xenU kernel found on the Xen web site.

Does anyone have any ideas? I really hope I can get this to work.

miguel

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