Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751668AbaL0Aja (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:39:30 -0500 Received: from arcturus.aphlor.org ([188.246.204.175]:58012 "EHLO arcturus.aphlor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750779AbaL0Aj1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:39:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:39:12 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Chris Mason , Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E2niel?= Fraga , Sasha Levin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Suresh Siddha , Oleg Nesterov , Peter Anvin , John Stultz Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 Message-ID: <20141227003912.GB32271@codemonkey.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Chris Mason , Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E2niel?= Fraga , Sasha Levin , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Suresh Siddha , Oleg Nesterov , Peter Anvin , John Stultz References: <20141222225725.GA8140@codemonkey.org.uk> <20141224030125.GA8725@codemonkey.org.uk> <20141226163410.GA25161@codemonkey.org.uk> <20141226181204.GA26527@codemonkey.org.uk> <20141226225744.GA30955@codemonkey.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Spam-Report: Spam report generated by SpamAssassin on "arcturus.aphlor.org" Content analysis details: (-2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] X-Authenticated-User: davej@codemonkey.org.uk Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 03:30:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > still running though.. > > Btw, did you ever boot with "tsc=reliable" as a kernel command line option? I don't think so. > For the last night, can you see if you can just run it with that, and > things work? Sure. > So I'm not even convinced that trying to debug some HPET issue is > really worth it. Especially if your machine is a preproduction board > from Intel. Yeah, I agree. Even though it's strange that this only became a problem this last few months for me, after over a year of abuse. Hopefully the new year brings more trustworthy hardware. Dave -- 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/