Somewhere recently, the TSC got re-enabled for timekeeping on NUMAQ machines. However, the hardware makes these get unsynchronized quite badly. So badly, in fact, that the code to fix up the skew can just hang on boot. This patch re-disables them. It's nicely confined to the numaq.c file. It would be great if this could make it into 2.6.13, I think it counts as a bugfix. Tested on a 16-proc 4-node NUMAQ. -- Dave Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen memhotplug-dave/arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/i386/mach-default/setup.c~numaq-tsc-disable arch/i386/mach-default/setup.c diff -L arch/i386/mach-default/setup.c.orig -puN /dev/null /dev/null diff -L p -puN /dev/null /dev/null diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c~numaq-tsc-disable arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c --- memhotplug/arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c~numaq-tsc-disable 2005-07-28 11:40:51.000000000 -0700 +++ memhotplug-dave/arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c 2005-07-28 11:50:59.000000000 -0700 @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #define MB_TO_PAGES(addr) ((addr) << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)) @@ -77,3 +78,11 @@ int __init get_memcfg_numaq(void) smp_dump_qct(); return 1; } + +static int __init numaq_dsc_disable(void) +{ + printk(KERN_DEBUG "NUMAQ: disabling TSC\n"); + tsc_disable = 1; + return 0; +} +core_initcall(numaq_dsc_disable); _