Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750817AbWAXXES (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:04:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750819AbWAXXES (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:04:18 -0500 Received: from 213-140-2-73.ip.fastwebnet.it ([213.140.2.73]:65484 "EHLO aa006msg.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750817AbWAXXER (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:04:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:04:54 +0100 From: Mattia Dongili To: john stultz Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: first bisection results in -mm3 [was: Re: 2.6.15-mm2: reiser3 oops on suspend and more (bonus oops shot!)] Message-ID: <20060124230453.GA6174@inferi.kami.home> Mail-Followup-To: john stultz , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1137108362.2890.141.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060114120816.GA3554@inferi.kami.home> <1137442582.27699.12.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060116204057.GC3639@inferi.kami.home> <1137458964.27699.65.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060117174953.GA3529@inferi.kami.home> <1137525090.27699.92.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060117224951.GA3320@inferi.kami.home> <16839.83.103.117.254.1137581235.squirrel@picard.linux.it> <1138141635.15682.92.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1138141635.15682.92.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Message-Flag: Cranky? Try Free Software instead! X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.16-rc1-mm2-3 i686 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Disclaimer: Buh! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1598 Lines: 42 On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:27:14PM -0800, john stultz wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 11:47 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > On Tue, January 17, 2006 11:49 pm, Mattia Dongili said: > > [...] > > > the stall is still there, tomorrow I'll reapply your debug-patch and > > > report the full dmesg (with the finished_booting-hack enabled). > > > > Full dmesg attached. > > Stalls happened between in the 16.39-16.55 interval, in 16.70-16.96 and > > 17.89-18.64. They were all much longer than stated in the log timestamp > > (I'd say ~10:1 ratio). > > > > Sorry again for my previous false notice about the bug being solved... > > Hey Mattia, > Sorry I've been so quiet recently, I'm still working on this one. The No problem. > difficult spot is that if the cpufreq notification driver is a module, > then there will always be a window between the point at which we start > using the TSC to the point where we find out that the TSC is changing > frequency. Not sure what to do here just yet. I was wondering if you could force an do_gettimeofday call quite early in order to lower tsc priority as soon as possible, but maybe I'm not entirely into that code :) > Although I'm curious: Did the recent changes in 2.6.16-rc1-mm2 had any > effect on this issue? no, I'm currently running it and the same behaviour still applies. ciao -- mattia :wq! - 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/