From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756950AbXIXIHl (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:07:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751848AbXIXIHb (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:07:31 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:42528 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751558AbXIXIHb (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:07:31 -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: <200709232252.41975.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <200709231257.12213.rjw@sisk.pl> <200709232208.18797.rjw@sisk.pl> <1190577581.4035.152.camel@chaos> <200709232252.41975.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:07:23 +0200 Message-Id: <1190621243.4035.171.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 22:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Second, noacpitimer added to the command line makes all of the kernels, up to > > > and including 2.6.23-rc6-mm1, boot (this seems to be 100% reproducible). > > > > That's valuable information. Can you please provide a boot log of one of > > those with an additional "apic=verbose" on the command line ? > > Attached is the dmesg output from the 2.6.23-rc6 kernel with the patchset: > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 > > applied. I also have the 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 dmesg output ready, but there's some > -mm-specific noise in it. Please let me know if you want it, though. Hmm: > Command line: root=/dev/sda3 vga=792 resume=/dev/sda1 noacpitimer apic=verbose 2 --------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^ noacpitimer is not a valid commandline option. I asked for: >> > > noapictimer So I really wonder, why noacpitimer on the kernel command line makes any difference. I'm confused. tglx