From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH diagnostic] Re: HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25 -- RCU problem
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:27:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080811192740.GM6762@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <173065.89301.qm@web82104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote:
>
>
> > > Well, I was hoping to see something interesting. I ran it with parameters
> > > "debug initcall_debug", and it locked up at the same place. I let it for
> > > 15 minutes, in case of some delayed reaction. Nada.
> >
> > Interesting. The causes could be:
> >
> > o Scheduling-clock interrupts aren't happening, as Ingo suggested.
>
> Does anyone have a short answer to this question: Were the changes between
> 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 so major that interrupts are NOW being used that were not
> being used before?
Not that I am aware of, but I must defer to others who know more about
Linux's timer interrupts than do I.
Thanx, Paul
> Again, I don't even pretend to understand the kernel's inner workings, but
> 2.6.25 _did_ work on this hardware... and with HPET enabled.
>
>
> DW
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2008-08-11 18:22 [PATCH diagnostic] Re: HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25 -- RCU problem David Witbrodt
2008-08-11 19:27 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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2008-08-11 18:13 David Witbrodt
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2008-08-11 16:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-08-11 16:04 David Witbrodt
2008-08-11 16:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-08-09 22:35 David Witbrodt
2008-08-10 15:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-08-11 1:35 ` [PATCH diagnostic] " Paul E. McKenney
2008-08-11 1:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-08-11 11:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-11 13:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
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