Re: The "clockevents: Prevent timer interrupt starvation" patch causes lockups

[Calvin Owens]

On Tuesday 04/14 at 15:39 +0000, Eric Naim wrote:
> On 4/14/26 5:20 AM, Hanabishi wrote:
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Sorry, but this patch as of 7.0 introduced *severe* periodic lockups on my
> > Ryzen 7700X machine.
> > I see such messages in the log:
> > 
> > clocksource: Long readout interval, skipping watchdog check: cs_nsec:
> > 2897344852 wd_nsec: 2897356996
> > 
> > Reverting d6e152d905bdb1f32f9d99775e2f453350399a6a for mainline fixes the
> > issue for me.
> > 
> 
> Hi maintainers,
> 
> several users from CachyOS has reported this regression as well. We landed on
> the same bisection. One of the users that could reproduce this reliably
> reproduced this just by watching a YouTube video in a browser, and observed
> freezes and stutters when interacting with the system.

Huh, I can't reproduce this at all across 10+ machines. Can you share
the Kconfig you're seeing this on?

Thanks,
Calvin