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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gabriel C <crazy@frugalware.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: Clocksource tsc is always unstable with 2.6.25-* kernels and CONFIG_NO_HZ=y on my box
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:33:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C24517.7010204@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.FpheN5sIQ5rxoLHYuhxxf6uauVs@ifi.uio.no>

Gabriel C wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed tsc is always marked unstable on my box with 2.6.25* , 2.6.24 is fine.
> 
> ..
> 
> [    0.825760] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:0e.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
> [    0.805755] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
> [    0.794244] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 2
> [    0.766968] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 3
> [    1.083944] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
> [   15.388792] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 9373391604 ns)
> [   15.714648] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
> 
> ..
> 
> Booting nohz=off fixes that.
> 
> Another strange thing is when I try to boot that kernel with clocksource=acpi_pm it just hangs.
> 
> config is attached.
> 
> Please let me know if you need more infos / want me to try patches or anything else.

Please post your full dmesg output.

       reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.FpheN5sIQ5rxoLHYuhxxf6uauVs@ifi.uio.no>
2008-02-25  4:33 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2008-02-25  7:40   ` Clocksource tsc is always unstable with 2.6.25-* kernels and CONFIG_NO_HZ=y on my box Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-25 16:56     ` Gabriel C
2008-02-25 19:39       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-25 20:48         ` Gabriel C
2008-03-12  7:11           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-13  3:30             ` Gabriel C
2008-02-24  0:31 Gabriel C
2008-02-25 20:14 ` Andrew Morton

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