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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:34:02 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com>,
       Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
       Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
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       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Can't boot a (HZ = 1000) kernel using an AMD
	Phenom-II processor
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* Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:54:19AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:16:40AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > >> Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> > >>> Hi Mark,
> > >>>
> > >>> Can you please provide us output of lspci -vvxxx.
> > >>> (Please run this as root.)
> > >>>
> > 
> > Attached...
> > 
> > 
> > >>> Furthermore you can try booting your 1000HZ kernel
> > >>> with following kernel command lines:
> > >>>
> 
> Thanks for trying this out.
> But nothing suspicious found. I.e. timer/hpet interrupt is enabled
> and its routing seems to be ok.
> 
> Here's one more check that's worth trying: In one of your logs I've
> seen that HPET id reports 3 timers but later on 4 timers were detected
> for HPET.
> 
> To check what's going on I'd like to see the HPET 
> configuration in the course of booting your system.  Please 
> apply attached patch and boot with hpet=debug -- both with 
> 250HZ and with 1000HZ -- and provide dmesg output.

Mind sending this patch as a hpet=verbose feature patch which we 
could queue up for upstream merging? We have hpet problems 
frequently, so some built-in debug/verbosity trigger would be 
nice.

	Ingo