From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759553AbXIYIIZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:08:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758395AbXIYIH5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:07:57 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:60844 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757239AbXIYIHz (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:07:55 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents From: Thomas Gleixner To: Mikhail Kshevetskiy Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J.Wysocki" , Dave Jones , Chuck Ebbert In-Reply-To: <20070925101418.68d30a72@localhost> References: <20070925101418.68d30a72@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:07:53 +0200 Message-Id: <1190707673.4035.275.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 Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: > Hello Thomas, Rafael > > > We know, that > > - disabling local apic timers work > > As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore AMD > processor. Do you have C1E feature enabled? > > i386 kernel disable lapic on dualcore AMD with C1E support (see > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/29/199). x86_64 kernel do not have this > patch still (it's required for tickless kernel only). Well it is required for non tickless mode as well. > As result, if > you run x86_64 kernel with hrt patch on such computer, the system > will stall during boot on lapic timer calibration. Thanks for the reminder. I have a look into this. tglx