From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:10:46 -0400 Subject: [xen] add warning to 'time went backwards' message Message-id: 20080312141046.22327.28505.sendpatchset@prarit.boston.redhat.com O-Subject: [RHEL 5 PATCH]: Add Warning to Xen "time went backwards" message Bugzilla: 436775 Add "Warning" to the "Time went backwards" message. Most QA groups (if not all) grep for specific messages in the syslog such as "Error", "Warning", "Oops". Time went backwards is a key error which can result in system instability. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Acked-by: Bill Burns <bburns@redhat.com> diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/time-xen.c b/arch/i386/kernel/time-xen.c index 2a6f8e1..2c51117 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/time-xen.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/time-xen.c @@ -665,8 +665,8 @@ irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs) if ((unlikely(delta < -(s64)permitted_clock_jitter) || unlikely(delta_cpu < -(s64)permitted_clock_jitter)) && printk_ratelimit()) { - printk("Timer ISR/%d: Time went backwards: " - "delta=%lld delta_cpu=%lld shadow=%lld " + printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning Timer ISR/%d: Time went " + "backwards: delta=%lld delta_cpu=%lld shadow=%lld " "off=%lld processed=%lld cpu_processed=%lld\n", cpu, delta, delta_cpu, shadow->system_timestamp, (s64)get_nsec_offset(shadow),