Re: X fails to start with latest Linus git

[Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:42:44 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > hm, perhaps it's due to the xtime lock dependency:
> > 
> >         do {
> >                 seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
> >                 getnstimeofday(ts);
> >                 tomono = wall_to_monotonic;
> > 
> >         } while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
> > 
> > perhaps your system somehow generates a printk from within an 
> > xtime_lock locked section?
> 
> i _bet_ it's these printks that cause your lockup:
> 
>  [   10.313437] Marking TSC unstable due to: cpufreq changes.
>  [   10.313437] Time: hpet clocksource has been installed.
>  [   10.424431] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -121609771 ns)
> 
> as these are done with the xtime lock held.
> 

Yes, disabling cpufreq (in my .config since, sadly, there is no command
line option to disable it) fixes the problem.

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Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>