From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
"Guilherme M. Schroeder" <guilherme@centralinf.com.br>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist Dell Optiplex 320 from using the HPET
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 01:19:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705050119.17234.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070504144408.c041d8df.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Friday 04 May 2007 23:44:08 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2007 14:29:04 -0700
> john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > One of the 2.6.21 regressions was Guilherme's problem seeing his box
> > lock up when the system detected an unstable TSC and dropped back to
> > using the HPET.
> >
> > In digging deeper, we found the HPET is not actually incrementing on
> > this system. And in fact, the reason why this issue just cropped up was
> > because of Thomas's clocksource watchdog code was comparing the TSC to
> > the HPET (which wasn't moving) and thought the TSC was broken.
> >
> > Anyway, Guliherme checked for a BIOS update and did not find one, so
> > I've added a DMI blacklist against his system so the HPET is not used.
> >
> > Many thanks to Guilherme for the slow and laborious testing that finally
> > narrowed down this issue.
> >
>
> OK, I tagged that for -stable too.
Don't please. It is completely the wrong approach. DMI should be only last resort,
not first.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-04 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 21:29 [PATCH] Blacklist Dell Optiplex 320 from using the HPET john stultz
2007-05-04 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-04 21:47 ` john stultz
2007-05-04 23:19 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-05-04 23:18 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-04 23:27 ` john stultz
2007-05-05 14:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-05 14:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-05 15:58 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-05-07 18:59 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-05-07 20:41 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-05-05 17:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-05 19:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-05 22:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-05 22:41 ` Guilherme M. Schroeder
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