Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:38:31 +0100 (CET) | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.33: Problem continues: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:404 hpet_next_event+0x70/0x80 |
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On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:37:04PM -0800, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Again, on the Intel DP55KG board: > > > > # uname -a > > Linux host 2.6.33 #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 18:31:00 EST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > [ 1.237600] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > [ 1.237890] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:404 hpet_next_event+0x70/0x80() > > [ 1.238221] Hardware name: > > [ 1.238504] hpet: compare register read back failed. > > [ 1.238793] Modules linked in: > > [ 1.239315] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33 #1 > > [ 1.239605] Call Trace: > > [ 1.239886] <IRQ> [<ffffffff81056c13>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x73/0xb0 > > [ 1.240409] [<ffffffff81079608>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x38/0xc0 > > [ 1.240699] [<ffffffff81056cb0>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x40/0x50 > > [ 1.240992] [<ffffffff81079608>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x38/0xc0 > > [ 1.241281] [<ffffffff81041ad0>] ? hpet_next_event+0x70/0x80 > > [ 1.241573] [<ffffffff81079608>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x38/0xc0 > > [ 1.241859] [<ffffffff81078e32>] ? tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast+0xe2/0x100 > > [ 1.246533] [<ffffffff8102a67a>] ? timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x30 > > [ 1.246826] [<ffffffff81085499>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x39/0xd0 > > [ 1.247118] [<ffffffff81087368>] ? handle_edge_irq+0xb8/0x160 > > [ 1.247407] [<ffffffff81029f55>] ? handle_irq+0x15/0x20 > > [ 1.247689] [<ffffffff810294a2>] ? do_IRQ+0x62/0xe0 > > [ 1.247976] [<ffffffff8146be53>] ? ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa > > [ 1.248262] <EOI> [<ffffffff8102f277>] ? mwait_idle+0x57/0x80 > > [ 1.248796] [<ffffffff8102645c>] ? cpu_idle+0x5c/0xb0 > > [ 1.249080] ---[ end trace db7f668fb6fef4e1 ]--- > > > > Is this something Intel has to fix or is it a bug in the kernel? > > This is a chipset erratum. > > Thomas: You mentioned we can retain this check only for known-buggy and > hpet debug kind of options. But here is the simple workaround patch for > this particular erratum.
Yes, that'd be the preferred way. I need to find the box which had the problem (ATI chipset) and force the readback for that one. That saves all other machines the extra hardware access.
Thanks,
tglx
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