Mark Hounschell wrote: > Borislav Petkov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:17:55AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote: >>> Borislav Petkov wrote: >>>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:15:58AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote: >>>> >>>> [..] >>>> >>>>> So were you able to reproduce this with my .config. Has anyone booted a Hz=1000 >>>>> kernel on an AMD Phenom-II? Is there something wrong with my .config? Is there >>>>> anything else I can do? >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> sorry for the delay - I've been busy last week and couldn't get to your >>>> problem. So, I couldn't reproduce the bug here with a Phenom II and your >>>> kernel config. However, we have a working theory, so can you please send >>>> me the output of >>>> >>>> xxd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/APIC >>>> >>> markh@harley:~> xxd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/APIC >>> 0000000: 4150 4943 8400 0000 014c 5258 3738 3020 APIC.....LRX780 >>> 0000010: 4157 5244 4143 5049 312e 3042 4157 5244 AWRDACPI1.0BAWRD >>> 0000020: 0000 0000 0000 e0fe 0100 0000 0008 0000 ................ >>> 0000030: 0100 0000 0008 0101 0100 0000 0008 0202 ................ >>> 0000040: 0100 0000 0008 0303 0100 0000 010c 0400 ................ >>> 0000050: 0000 c0fe 0000 0000 020a 0000 0200 0000 ................ >>> 0000060: 0000 020a 0009 0900 0000 0f00 0406 0005 ................ >>> 0000070: 0001 0406 0105 0001 0406 0205 0001 0406 ................ >>> 0000080: 0305 0001 >> looks good at a glance... >> >>>> Also, can you boot a 64-bit, HZ1000 kernel on your machine? >>>> >>> No, a 64 bit kernel @1000Hz doesn't boot either. As with the 32 bit kernel, >>> setting Hz to 250 allows it to boot. The messages are slightly different when it >>> hangs on the 64bit kernel at 1000Hz. >> That's not cool - as I said before, I can't reproduce this behavior here >> which means that the problem might be chipset-related. What you could do >> now is to boot the kernel with "debug initcall_debug log_buf_len=10M" >> and try to capture the whole boot log with a serial console - or if that >> doesn't work - make a screenshot with a camera of some sort. This might >> shed some light on the question where exactly your machine hangs. >> > >Another question: does your machine boot a tickless kernel (CONFIG_NO_HZ >enabled)? Borislav, A tickless kernel didn't change anything. I did get a serial console connected and below is what I got. I don't see much usefull. Attached is the config. Press any key to continue. root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.8-1000Hz root=/dev/sda5 hwprobe=-modules.pata apm=off s elinux=0 noresume splash=silent debug initcall_debug log_buf_len=10M console=tt yS0,19200n8 vga=normal [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x2e00, size=0x1827c0] initrd /initrd-2.6.26.8-1000Hz [Linux-initrd @ 0x37622000, 0x9cdf42 bytes] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Linux version 2.6.26.8-1000Hz (root@harley) (gcc version 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) ) #5 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb9 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bffe0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000bffe0000 - 00000000bffe3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000bffe3000 - 00000000bfff0000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000bfff0000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable) x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106 Warning only 4GB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled kernel. 3200MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at [c00f3f00] 000f3f00 Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 1048576) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 229376 HighMem 229376 -> 1048576 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 1048576 On node 0 totalpages: 1048576 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 6400 pages used for memmap HighMem zone: 812800 pages, LIFO batch:31 Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.5 present. ACPI: RSDP 000F7FB0, 0024 (r2 RX780 ) ACPI: XSDT BFFE3080, 0044 (r1 RX780 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0) ACPI: FACP BFFE8C80, 00F4 (r3 RX780 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0) ACPI: DSDT BFFE3200, 5A71 (r1 RX780 AWRDACPI 1000 MSFT 100000E) ACPI: FACS BFFE0000, 0040 ACPI: HPET BFFE8E40, 0038 (r1 RX780 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 98) ACPI: MCFG BFFE8E80, 003C (r1 RX780 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0) ACPI: APIC BFFE8D80, 0084 (r1 RX780 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0) ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254. ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs ACPI: HPET id: 0x10b9a201 base: 0xfed00000 Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at c2000000 (gap: c0000000:20000000) SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs PERCPU: Allocating 38788 bytes of per cpu data NR_CPUS: 32, nr_cpu_ids: 4 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1040384 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda5 hwprobe=-modules.pata apm=off selinux=0 noresume splash=silent debug initcall_debug log_buf_len=10M console=ttyS0,19200l log_buf_len: 16777216 mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 Preemptible RCU implementation. PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Detected 3360.327 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 console [ttyS0] enabled Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 3080904k/4194304k available (1751k kernel code, 63472k reserved, 730k data, 216k init, 2228096k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xffe15000 - 0xfffff000 (1960 kB) pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB) .init : 0xc0373000 - 0xc03a9000 ( 216 kB) .data : 0xc02b5ca2 - 0xc036c6d0 ( 730 kB) .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02b5ca2 (1751 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok. CPA: page pool initialized 1 of 1 pages preallocated SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1 Thanks Mark