Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757648AbXI2UCx (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:02:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751903AbXI2UCq (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:02:46 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:48196 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751646AbXI2UCp (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:02:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:02:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Frans Pop Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Udo A. Steinberg" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot Message-Id: <20070929130234.e5f0f777.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200709292140.23593.elendil@planet.nl> References: <200709282225.21530.elendil@planet.nl> <200709290232.44573.elendil@planet.nl> <20070929013702.f56ba268.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200709292140.23593.elendil@planet.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1489 Lines: 39 On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:40:22 +0200 Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 29 September 2007, you wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:32:44 +0200 Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Friday 28 September 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > My Toshiba Satellite A40 (i386, P4 Mobile) hangs during boot after: > > > > Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2. > > > > Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. > > > > > > A few new boot attempts show the problem is more likely at: > > > Probing IDE interface ide0... > > Looks like it is both: hpet killing IDE? > > > Two iterations should get you into the culprit zone. > > Thanks for the pointers. Luckily I ended up in a quite narrow zone between > two of the points you indicated (10 iterations). > > And the winner is: > > 3fe6c0016fd863b233097a8219a0d8577c2fd503 is first bad commit > commit 3fe6c0016fd863b233097a8219a0d8577c2fd503 > Author: Udo A. Steinberg <...> > hpet-force-enable-on-ich34 > > Guess the comments about thin ice and testing were justified :-) > > lspci and a 2.6.23-rc6 dmesg for this system can be found in: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/300 Great, thanks for doing that. I guess I'll drop the patch for now in that case. - 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/