From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758672Ab2IKV2E (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:28:04 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:35087 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758349Ab2IKV17 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:27:59 -0400 Message-ID: <504FACD9.4020108@linaro.org> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:27:53 +0200 From: Daniel Lezcano User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stultz CC: prarit@redhat.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org, Peter Zijlstra , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Weisbecker , richardcochran@gmail.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , mingo@kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_NO_HZ + CONFIG_CPU_IDLE freeze the system (Was Re: [PATCH] acpi : remove power from acpi_processor_cx structure) References: <1343164349-28550-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> <201209062204.11288.rjw@sisk.pl> <50490920.9070204@linaro.org> <201209062318.42874.rjw@sisk.pl> <504A02BD.4000805@linaro.org> <504A2D73.3010702@linaro.org> <504A68A0.7010907@linaro.org> <504E1FE5.6090502@linaro.org> <504E4343.5070004@linaro.org> <504E8372.20904@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <504E8372.20904@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/11/2012 02:18 AM, John Stultz wrote: > On 09/10/2012 12:45 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> On 09/10/2012 07:14 PM, John Stultz wrote: >>> In the meantime, I'll try to reproduce on my T61. If you could send me >>> your .config, I'd appreciate it. >> http://pastebin.com/qSxqfdDK >> >> The header of the config file shows for a v3.5-rc7 because it is the >> result of the git-bisect. If you keep this config file for the latest >> kernel that should reproduce the problem. >> >> Let me know if you were able to reproduce the problem. > Great! With this I was able to quickly reproduce the problem and I think > I have a fix. > > Would you mind testing the following patch? It seems to resolve the > issue, but I've not yet run it through my test suite to make sure it > didn't break anything else. > > If both your and my testing comes back ok, I'll submit it to Thomas. Sounds like this solves the problem. Without enough background on timers in general, I don't have an opinion about the patch itself but I can confirm the issue is no longer occurring. Thanks -- Daniel -- Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog