2008-08-26 12:58:41

by David Witbrodt

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Subject: Re: HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25 -- found another user with the same regression



> Note that the hpet fix is now upstream [...]

Any chance this can be applied to stable 2.6.26.x?

Half of my agenda was selfish (to be sure future kernels would not
hang on my 2 home servers), but the other half was to ensure that
Debian would not have hanging kernels in their next stable release.


Thanks again for all the hard work,
Dave W.


2008-08-26 13:28:41

by Ingo Molnar

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Subject: Re: HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25 -- found another user with the same regression


* David Witbrodt <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Note that the hpet fix is now upstream [...]
>
> Any chance this can be applied to stable 2.6.26.x?
>
> Half of my agenda was selfish (to be sure future kernels would not
> hang on my 2 home servers), but the other half was to ensure that
> Debian would not have hanging kernels in their next stable release.

it's a backport candidate, but i think we should wait a bit with that,
until after .27-rc5 or -rc6, to make sure there are no side-effects.

The upstream commit is:

commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd
Author: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Aug 25 00:56:08 2008 -0700

x86: fix HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25, check hpet against BAR, v3

btw., are both of your systems that were hanging fixed by this commit?

> Thanks again for all the hard work,

you are welcome!

Ingo