Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem with git-sched.patch

Badari Pulavarty
2008-03-13T18:17:18Z

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 18:55 +0100, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > commit 60befbc1c0b6d141c9c26e61ddd303aedd1e7396
> > Author: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
> > Date: Mon Mar 10 08:16:41 2008 +0100
> >
> > sched: make sure jiffies is up to date before calling
> > __update_rq_clock()
>
> I didn't know this patch could prevent booting, but anyway it should
> have been removed a long time ago:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/25/408
>

I don't know whats happening either, but my debug shows that
tick_nohz_update_jiffies() always returns due to following
check without calling touch_softlockup_watchdog().

if (!ts->tick_stopped)
return;

BTW, I have CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y in my config.

Thanks,
Badari