Re: 2.6.16-mm1

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "R. J. Wysocki" <Rafal.Wysocki@fuw.edu.pl> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16/2.6.16-mm1/
> > 
> > On a uniprocessor AMD64 w/ CONFIG_SMP unset (2.6.16-rc6-mm2 works on this box
> > just fine, .config attached):
> 
> hm, uniproc x86_64 seems to cause problems sometimes.  I should test it more.
> 
> > }-- snip --{
> > PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
> > time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz WALL PM GTOD PIT/TSC timer.
> > time.c: Detected 1795.400 MHz processor.
> > disabling early console
> > Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> > time.c: Lost 103 timer tick(s)! rip 10:start_kernel+0x121/0x220
> > last cli 0x0
> > last cli caller 0x0
> > time.c: Lost 3 timer tick(s)! rip 10:__do_softirq+0x44/0xc0
> > last cli 0x0
> > last cli caller 0x0
> > time.c: Lost 3 timer tick(s)! rip 10:__do_softirq+0x44/0xc0
> 
> Hi, John.

Hi. :)

Hmmmm. Not sure how this would relate to the TOD bits, but they might be
somehow causing it.

Rafael, could you send me the full dmesg and .config info and I'll try
to find a box to reproduce this on?

thanks
-john