From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758390AbXIWTKy (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:10:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756235AbXIWTKr (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:10:47 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:55208 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755288AbXIWTKq (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:10:46 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents From: Thomas Gleixner To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , LKML In-Reply-To: <200709231257.12213.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <200709231257.12213.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:10:41 +0200 Message-Id: <1190574641.4035.148.camel@chaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 (2.12.0-3.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Unfortunately, my observation that the patch series: > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 > > worked with 2.6.23-rc4 was wrong. It _sometimes_ works, but usually doesn't > boot, just like 2.6.23-rc4-mm1, 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 and everything in between with > the above patch series applied. I've also tried: > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc5/patch-2.6.23-rc5-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc6/patch-2.6.23-rc6-hrt2.patch > > with the same result. > > The problematic patch is x86_64-convert-to-clockevents.patch . > > Since the boot fails very early, before any messages reach the (VGA) console, > I have no idea what to do next, except for digging in the code. Ok, lets track it down. Is there any difference when you add: nohz=off highres=off noapictimer or any combinations of the above to the kernel command line ? tglx