Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264339AbUDOQ6I (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:58:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264353AbUDOQ6I (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:58:08 -0400 Received: from mail3.codesense.com ([213.132.104.154]:1170 "EHLO mail3.codesense.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264339AbUDOQ6C (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:58:02 -0400 Subject: Re: Failing back to INSANE timesource :) Time stopped today. From: Niclas Gustafsson To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: john stultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1081416100.6425.45.camel@gmg.codesense.com> <1081465114.4705.4.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1081932857.17234.37.camel@gmg.codesense.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1082048278.17234.144.camel@gmg.codesense.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:57:59 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1337 Lines: 43 Hello and thanks, I've compiled and deployed a kernel with the patch below. I'm about to start some more tests on the machine - it's going to be interesting to see how it works out, I'll let you know. Cheers, Niclas tor 2004-04-15 klockan 16.47 skrev Maciej W. Rozycki: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Niclas Gustafsson wrote: > > > Watching the /proc/interrupts with 10s apart after the "stop". > > > > [root@s151 root]# more /proc/interrupts > > CPU0 > > 0: 66413955 local-APIC-edge timer > [...] > > LOC: 67355837 > > ERR: 0 > > MIS: 0 > > [root@s151 root]# more /proc/interrupts > > CPU0 > > 0: 66413955 local-APIC-edge timer > [...] > > LOC: 67379568 > > ERR: 0 > > MIS: 0 > > This may be because buggy SMM firmware messes with the 8259A (configured > for a transparent mode -- yes that rare "local-APIC-edge" mode is tricky > ;-) ) insanely. You've written this is an IBM box previously -- this > would be no surprise. The following patch should help -- I think it's > already included in the -mm series. - 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/