From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755524AbYIAPg5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:36:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751812AbYIAPgs (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:36:48 -0400 Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.116]:44202 "EHLO mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751719AbYIAPgs (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:36:48 -0400 Message-ID: <48BC0C1C.9050205@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:37:00 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: LKML , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linus Torvalds , Alok Kataria , Michael Buesch Subject: Re: Regression in 2.6.27 caused by commit bfc0f59 References: <48BB2116.1060904@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> +Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 500037272 ns) > >> -Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 83950402 ns) > > In both cases the TSC is ahead of the pm_timer, which looks like the > pm_timer is behaving strange. > > Can you please disable the pm_timer (in the kernel config, > unfortunately there is no command line option for that) for a test and > provide the relevant output of demsg ? I manually deleted CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER from .config, but it returns silently. The only way I see to turn off the pm_timer is to disable power management. Is that what I need to do? Larry