Re: [boot crash] Re: [tip:timers/core] clocksource: Resolve cpu hotplug dead lock with TSC unstable

Ingo Molnar
2009-09-03T18:58:22Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> i tried to bisect it but it's inconclusive:
>
> # bad: [32beef9c] Merge branch 'perfcounters/core'
> # bad: [b6413360] manual merge of x86/platform
> # bad: [d9e5f39a] Merge branch 'auto-oprofile-next' into auto-latest
> # bad: [cbaff272] Merge branch 'auto-timers-next' into auto-latest
>
> as the bisection comes up with that merge commit. Perhaps the
> combination of the x86/platform changes and the clocksource
> changes triggered it?

That seems to be the case - i just tested a combination merge of
tip:auto-timers-next and tip:auto-x86-next and the result crashed in
a similar way too.

Since normal bisection cannot find such breakages, i did a topical
bisection (merging the finegrained tip:x86/* topics into the timer
tree gradually and testing each merge).

That way i could exclude: x86/platform, x86/pat, x86/asm, x86/apic,
x86/percpu, x86/cpu, x86/mm and arrived to x86/tsc - which contains
a single commit:

d3b8f88: x86: Make tsc=reliable override boot time stability checks

Reverting that commit from tip:master gives me a non-crashing
bootup.

Ingo