Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756009AbYBDETU (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 23:19:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754906AbYBDETN (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 23:19:13 -0500 Received: from mailgw.cvut.cz ([147.32.3.235]:57188 "EHLO mailgw.cvut.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754828AbYBDETM (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 23:19:12 -0500 Message-ID: <47A6923C.4060208@vandrovec.name> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:19:08 -0800 From: Petr Vandrovec User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071119 Iceape/1.1.7 (Debian-1.1.7-1) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Commit f06e4ec breaks vmware References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 945 Lines: 41 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > > sad to say, but f06e4ec... breaks booting the kernel in vmware > (bisected). Booting just stops after > > Checking for 'hlt' instruction... > > commit f06e4ec1c15691b0cfd2397ae32214fa36c90d71 > Author: Ingo Molnar > Date: Wed Jan 30 13:32:39 2008 +0100 > > x86: read_tsc sync > > make native_read_tsc() always non-speculative. > > > Any debugging hintss? It does not make lot of sense... What is processor (AMD/Intel, VT/SVM, ...), kernel (32/64), and product? Can you try adding monitor_control.disable_rdtscopt_bt="TRUE" or monitor_control.virtual_rdtsc="FALSE" to your configuration file? Thanks, Petr -- 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/