Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

Thomas Gleixner
2007-02-21T18:13:48Z

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 09:38 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > >
> > > Could be the switch over then which confuses the NMI .
> >
> > Why? The switch just stops the PIT/HPET. It does not fiddle with IO_APIC
> > and friends at all.
>
> I'm not an expert on the io-apic, but the check_timer() function seemed
> to assume IRQ0 was happening regularly ..

Again:

check_timer() is called _BEFORE_ we even touch the local APIC timers. At
this point PIT/HPET _IS_ firing IRQ0 with HZ frequency.

> Well, I'm pretty sure it's HRT, cause in prior versions this only
> happened when HRT is enabled. Then you guys went to the lapic all the
> time, and now this is happening all the time ..

The NMI is stuck:

if (nmi_count(cpu) - prev_nmi_count[cpu] <= 5) {
printk("CPU#%d: NMI appears to be stuck (%d->%d)!\n",
cpu,
prev_nmi_count[cpu],
nmi_count(cpu));

This has nothing to do with jiffies.

There have been a bunch of changes in arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c as well.

> You can't reproduce this?

Nope.

Also all my machines emit something like:
"ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] dfl dfl lint[0x1])"

In your boot log nothing to see.

tglx