Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Failing back to INSANE timesource :) Time stopped today. | From | Niclas Gustafsson <> | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:57:59 +0200 |
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Hello and thanks,
I've compiled and deployed a kernel with the patch below. I'm about to start some more tests on the machine - it's going to be interesting to see how it works out, I'll let you know.
Cheers,
Niclas
tor 2004-04-15 klockan 16.47 skrev Maciej W. Rozycki: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Niclas Gustafsson wrote: > > > Watching the /proc/interrupts with 10s apart after the "stop". > > > > [root@s151 root]# more /proc/interrupts > > CPU0 > > 0: 66413955 local-APIC-edge timer > [...] > > LOC: 67355837 > > ERR: 0 > > MIS: 0 > > [root@s151 root]# more /proc/interrupts > > CPU0 > > 0: 66413955 local-APIC-edge timer > [...] > > LOC: 67379568 > > ERR: 0 > > MIS: 0 > > This may be because buggy SMM firmware messes with the 8259A (configured > for a transparent mode -- yes that rare "local-APIC-edge" mode is tricky > ;-) ) insanely. You've written this is an IBM box previously -- this > would be no surprise. The following patch should help -- I think it's > already included in the -mm series.
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