From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756830AbZBTQJZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:09:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751473AbZBTQJQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:09:16 -0500 Received: from wa4ehsobe002.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.181.12]:9967 "EHLO WA4EHSOBE002.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751754AbZBTQJQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:09:16 -0500 X-BigFish: VPS-44(zz3b49K1432R98dR936eQ148cM1805M936fKzzzzz32i6bh61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-FB-SS: 5, X-WSS-ID: 0KFDGV0-02-CRU-01 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:08:43 +0100 From: Andreas Herrmann To: Mark Hounschell CC: Borislav Petkov , Mark Hounschell , john stultz , linux-kernel , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Can't boot a (HZ = 1000) kernel using an AMD Phenom-II processor Message-ID: <20090220160843.GF4834@alberich.amd.com> References: <499C0913.9050905@compro.net> <20090218141843.GB13304@aftab> <499C3DED.1090807@cfl.rr.com> <20090218174243.GD13304@aftab> <499C7AC8.4080609@cfl.rr.com> <499D364C.3010704@cfl.rr.com> <20090219141131.GM4301@alberich.amd.com> <20090220115357.GE4834@alberich.amd.com> <499ECF87.2070204@cfl.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <499ECF87.2070204@cfl.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2009 16:09:04.0604 (UTC) FILETIME=[8D3139C0:01C99375] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:43:03AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote: > Andreas Herrmann wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:54:19AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote: > >> Borislav Petkov wrote: > >>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:16:40AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote: > >>>> Andreas Herrmann wrote: > >>>>> Hi Mark, > >>>>> > >>>>> Can you please provide us output of lspci -vvxxx. > >>>>> (Please run this as root.) > >>>>> > >> Attached... > >> > >> > >>>>> Furthermore you can try booting your 1000HZ kernel > >>>>> with following kernel command lines: > >>>>> > > > > Thanks for trying this out. > > But nothing suspicious found. I.e. timer/hpet interrupt is enabled > > and its routing seems to be ok. > > > > Here's one more check that's worth trying: In one of your logs I've > > seen that HPET id reports 3 timers but later on 4 timers were detected > > for HPET. > > > > To check what's going on I'd like to see the HPET configuration in the > > course of booting your system. Please apply attached patch and boot > > with hpet=debug -- both with 250HZ and with 1000HZ -- and provide dmesg > > output. > > > > > > Here is the short 1000Hz bootlog. I'm afraid non of your debug output made it > out however. Sigh. > I thought it was because it just wasn't getting that far but > looking at the 250Hz log I don't see any there either??? > The patch applied (with fuz) to both kernel sources and I built/installed them > from clean. I don't find any messages starting with "hpet:" in either trace??? Your 250HZ kernel was built on Feb, 2nd, right? So the patch wasn't applied I guess, no? > Linux version 2.6.28.3-1000Hz (root@harley) (gcc version 4.3.1 20080507 > (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) ) #7 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb > 20 09:01:29 EST 2009 I assume the patch was aplied. > Linux version 2.6.28.3-250Hz (root@harley) (gcc version 4.3.1 > 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) > ) #7 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 2 0 09:01:54 EST 2009 Here I doubt that's the right kernel -- at least it was not built today. Can you please double check this. Regards, Andreas -- Operating | Advanced Micro Devices GmbH System | Karl-Hammerschmidt-Str. 34, 85609 Dornach b. München, Germany Research | Geschäftsführer: Jochen Polster, Thomas M. McCoy, Giuliano Meroni Center | Sitz: Dornach, Gemeinde Aschheim, Landkreis München (OSRC) | Registergericht München, HRB Nr. 43632