Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1: WARN_ON() in clockevents_register_device() on HP nx6325 | | Date | Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:21:39 +0100 |
On Sunday, 20 of January 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>
> > Something goes wrong in the timers land. I get this on boot:
> >
> > ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> > Disabling APIC timer
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: at /home/rafael/src/mm/linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/kernel/time/clockevents.c:1
> > 65 clockevents_register_device+0x36/0xc4()
>
> ok, since we disable the APIC timer, i suspect this warning can be
> disregarded - the bootup is otherwise fine, right?
>
> Thomas - why do we register it while it's disabled? I have put in that
> warning to detect APIC miscalibrations.
Well, for an unknown reason, there's a ~5 s delay during resume from RAM (in
fact I can also trigger it in the "core" test mode, ie. without entering the
sleep state), which I thought might be related. If not, it might be necessary
to bisect again. Sigh.
Thanks,
Rafael
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