Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:18:57 -0300 | From | "Guilherme M. Schroeder" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.21-rc7: HPET enabled freeze my machine at boot |
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John,
The dynticks doesn't affect HPET here at all. The machine freeze with or w/o dynticks.
Gonna try the patch and i tell you.
Guilherme M. Schroeder Network Administrator Central de Vendas Informatica LTDA Tel.: (11) 3665-2000 Ramal: 2008 http://www.centralinf.com.br
john stultz wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 20:07 -0300, Guilherme M. Schroeder wrote: >> john stultz wrote: >>> On 4/19/07, guilherme <guilherme@centralinf.com.br> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> If i enable "High Resolution Timer Support", my machine stops here at >>>> boot: >>>> >>>> Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -297340790165 ns) >>>> Time: hpet clocksource has been installed. >>>> >>>> If i disable HPET, it boots fine. >>> Hmmm.. What happens if you boot w/ clocksource=acpi_pm ? >>> >>> >> Boot ok with clocksource=acpi_pm and HPET enabled. >> Any clue? > > > I'm suspecting that your HPET counter is being stopped for some reason, > although why I have no idea. > > Just to get a clear picture, does this happen w/ "Tickless System > (Dynamic ticks)" disabled in the menuconfig? > > Thomas, might we be actually stopping the HPET counter instead of > disabling the HPET interrupt w/ dynticks? > > thanks > -john > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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