From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752755Ab1AaKDS (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:03:18 -0500 Received: from lider.pardus.org.tr ([193.140.100.216]:42702 "EHLO lider.pardus.org.tr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751368Ab1AaKDQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:03:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4D4688DD.6030502@pardus.org.tr> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:03:09 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?T3phbiDDh2HEn2xheWFu?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: Lionel Debroux , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, colin.king@canonical.com Subject: Re: Common boot/shutdown issues with the latest 2.6.37 (Mostly Asus laptops) References: <556624.21214.qm@web28409.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <201101302348.40509.rjw@sisk.pl> <4D467882.9060304@pardus.org.tr> <201101311050.49722.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <201101311050.49722.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 31.01.2011 11:50, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: >> On 31.01.2011 00:48, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >>> Does booting with "nolapic" help on all of the affected systems? >>> >>> Also, does disabling the CPUidle during boot help? >>> >>> Finally, is the problem reproducible with CONFIG_NO_HZ unset? >> >> Well on two machines, nolapic cures the boot hang and on one machine it >> cures the random shutdown hangs. >> >> I'll compile a kernel with CONFIG_NO_HZ to see what happens but how do I >> disable cpuidle during boot? I've checked the kernel-parameters.txt but >> there's no cpuidle related boot parameter there. > > Booting with intel_idle.max_cstate=0 should do the trick. Okay but on Asus X61S idle fallbacks to cpuidle: intel_idle: MWAIT substates: 0x3122220 intel_idle: does not run on family 6 model 23 so forcing max_cstate to 0 will turn off the cpuidle on those machines too? -- Pardus Linux http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng