Re: HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25 -- found another user with the same regression

Ingo Molnar
2008-08-26T13:28:41Z

* David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> > Note that the hpet fix is now upstream [...]
>
> Any chance this can be applied to stable 2.6.26.x?
>
> Half of my agenda was selfish (to be sure future kernels would not
> hang on my 2 home servers), but the other half was to ensure that
> Debian would not have hanging kernels in their next stable release.

it's a backport candidate, but i think we should wait a bit with that,
until after .27-rc5 or -rc6, to make sure there are no side-effects.

The upstream commit is:

commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd
Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 25 00:56:08 2008 -0700

x86: fix HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25, check hpet against BAR, v3

btw., are both of your systems that were hanging fixed by this commit?

> Thanks again for all the hard work,

you are welcome!

Ingo