APIC frequency too slow on HP dv5z

APIC frequency too slow on HP dv5z

[Howard Chu]

More often than not, on a warm boot I see something like this

msg.new:[    1.940031] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC timer calibration result 466046
msg.new:[    1.944031] Detected 0.466 MHz APIC timer.
msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC frequency too slow, disabling apic timer

On cold boots it may see 12.5MHz, or may not...

[    2.000584] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
[    2.004067] APIC timer calibration result 12500236
[    2.004080] Detected 12.500 MHz APIC timer.

I haven't figured out yet what the pattern is behind the behavior. Has anyone 
else seen this kind of problem before?
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Re: APIC frequency too slow on HP dv5z

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Howard Chu wrote:

> More often than not, on a warm boot I see something like this
> 
> msg.new:[    1.940031] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC timer calibration result 466046
> msg.new:[    1.944031] Detected 0.466 MHz APIC timer.
> msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC frequency too slow, disabling apic timer
> 
> On cold boots it may see 12.5MHz, or may not...
> 
> [    2.000584] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> [    2.004067] APIC timer calibration result 12500236
> [    2.004080] Detected 12.500 MHz APIC timer.
> 
> I haven't figured out yet what the pattern is behind the behavior. Has anyone
> else seen this kind of problem before?

Hmm, strange. Which kernel version ? 

Thanks,

	tglx

Re: APIC frequency too slow on HP dv5z

[Howard Chu]

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Howard Chu wrote:
>
>> More often than not, on a warm boot I see something like this
>>
>> msg.new:[    1.940031] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
>> msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC timer calibration result 466046
>> msg.new:[    1.944031] Detected 0.466 MHz APIC timer.
>> msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC frequency too slow, disabling apic timer
>>
>> On cold boots it may see 12.5MHz, or may not...
>>
>> [    2.000584] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
>> [    2.004067] APIC timer calibration result 12500236
>> [    2.004080] Detected 12.500 MHz APIC timer.
>>
>> I haven't figured out yet what the pattern is behind the behavior. Has anyone
>> else seen this kind of problem before?
>
> Hmm, strange. Which kernel version ?

I only started paying attention recently. 2.6.27-rc4 thru rc7 for sure. I'm 
running rc7 right now, that's what those log snippets are from.

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   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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Re: APIC frequency too slow on HP dv5z

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Howard Chu wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Howard Chu wrote:
> > 
> > > More often than not, on a warm boot I see something like this
> > > 
> > > msg.new:[    1.940031] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> > > msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC timer calibration result 466046
> > > msg.new:[    1.944031] Detected 0.466 MHz APIC timer.
> > > msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC frequency too slow, disabling apic timer
> > > 
> > > On cold boots it may see 12.5MHz, or may not...
> > > 
> > > [    2.000584] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> > > [    2.004067] APIC timer calibration result 12500236
> > > [    2.004080] Detected 12.500 MHz APIC timer.
> > > 
> > > I haven't figured out yet what the pattern is behind the behavior. Has
> > > anyone
> > > else seen this kind of problem before?
> > 
> > Hmm, strange. Which kernel version ?
> 
> I only started paying attention recently. 2.6.27-rc4 thru rc7 for sure. I'm
> running rc7 right now, that's what those log snippets are from.

Ok. Can you please add apic=verbose to the kernel command line so we
get more detailed info about that ?

Thanks,

	tglx

Re: APIC frequency too slow on HP dv5z

[Howard Chu]

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Howard Chu wrote:
>> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Howard Chu wrote:
>>>
>>>> More often than not, on a warm boot I see something like this
>>>>
>>>> msg.new:[    1.940031] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
>>>> msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC timer calibration result 466046
>>>> msg.new:[    1.944031] Detected 0.466 MHz APIC timer.
>>>> msg.new:[    1.944031] APIC frequency too slow, disabling apic timer
>>>>
>>>> On cold boots it may see 12.5MHz, or may not...
>>>>
>>>> [    2.000584] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
>>>> [    2.004067] APIC timer calibration result 12500236
>>>> [    2.004080] Detected 12.500 MHz APIC timer.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't figured out yet what the pattern is behind the behavior. Has
>>>> anyone
>>>> else seen this kind of problem before?
>>> Hmm, strange. Which kernel version ?
>> I only started paying attention recently. 2.6.27-rc4 thru rc7 for sure. I'm
>> running rc7 right now, that's what those log snippets are from.
>
> Ok. Can you please add apic=verbose to the kernel command line so we
> get more detailed info about that ?

OK. Of course since you asked for it, the problem refused to show up. It took 
about a dozen reboots before it appeared again. And then it took 3-4 reboots 
to make it go away. Full dmesg output is here:
	http://www.highlandsun.com/hyc/msg.rc7.bad.gz
	http://www.highlandsun.com/hyc/msg.rc7.ok.gz

-- 
   -- Howard Chu
   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/