From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933808AbXGYQv1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:51:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764108AbXGYQvQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:51:16 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41578 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763981AbXGYQvO (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:51:14 -0400 From: Len Brown Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center To: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte Subject: Re: Time Problems with 2.6.23-rc1-gf695baf2 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:50:22 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Michal Piotrowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner References: <20070723221630.GA28951@alice> <6bffcb0e0707241614s7b563b5bu114d2ecb227b1557@mail.gmail.com> <20070725113349.GB5469@alice> In-Reply-To: <20070725113349.GB5469@alice> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707251250.22469.lenb@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 25 July 2007 07:33, Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte wrote: > * Michal Piotrowski (michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com) wrote: > > On 24/07/07, Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte wrote: > > > see second 13 to 510, after pressing it about ten > > > times, it continues booting. > > > > Probing IDE interface... > > > > [ 13.867939] VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on > > pci0000:00:04.1 > > [ 13.868062] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: > > hda:DMA, hdb:pio > > [ 13.868268] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: > > hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > > [ 13.868574] Probing IDE interface ide0... > > [ 387.279576] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 370195339890 ns) > > [ 496.200082] hda: ST340823A, ATA DISK drive > > [ 510.264511] hda: selected mode 0x44 > > [ 510.264826] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > > > > Could you please try to revert these commits > > > > commit 4099d14322149c7a467e4997b87be4ba8eb78697 > > commit 6a824c92db4d606c324272c4eed366fb71672440 > > commit a5d8c5c834d3cabf4b7b477c3f6ee923c25026fc > > reverting these commits didnt change anything at all, > booting with acpi=off resolved the issue, so i guess it is > an acpi problem after all. Maybe yes, maybe no. > > > > [ 13.506890] ACPI Exception (processor_throttling-0084): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _PTC [20070126] > > > > [ 13.507101] ACPI Exception (processor_throttling-0147): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _TSS [20070126] Note that these are just noise -- new code being verbose when looking for an optional feature. The fact that hitting the power button a bunch of times to make the system move along suggests some sort of missing interrupt problem -- most likely the timer itself. [ 13.868574] Probing IDE interface ide0... [ 387.279576] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 370195339890 ns) 5-minutes -- a long probe:-) > CONFIG_NO_HZ=y does CONFIG_NO_HZ=n make a difference? > CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y does CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n make a difference? does "irqpoll" make any difference? does "notsc" make any difference? does "idle=poll" make any difference? cheers, -Len