Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758469AbYBYUsV (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:48:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750850AbYBYUsN (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:48:13 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:12203 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750736AbYBYUsM (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:48:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mGUguCYTzNZaeiYTkt7DFR/93YSudXYC7lJJnZC3FqTBFJsU3069D04Hkkp1WQv6ikNqCzIUCp7fgiZgdrCeDBLDa9a4Hf60pjJNkDKisvePC6rb8QYID6HWOJXgBgenYCy0sOvtyfF/z5wCoWu9AMdGVmdFVHovcBWwAtvQesk= Message-ID: <47C32986.8010206@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:48:06 +0100 From: Gabriel C User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071204) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: Robert Hancock , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Gabriel C Subject: Re: Clocksource tsc is always unstable with 2.6.25-* kernels and CONFIG_NO_HZ=y on my box References: <47C24517.7010204@shaw.ca> <47C2F350.1060107@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1080 Lines: 38 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Gabriel C wrote: >>>>> Booting nohz=off fixes that. >>>>> >>>>> Another strange thing is when I try to boot that kernel with >>>>> clocksource=acpi_pm it just hangs. > > What happens if you add clocksource=acpi_pm and nohz=off to the kernel > commandline ? > Then the kernel boots and it seems to work. http://frugalware.org/~crazy/dmesg/lara/dmesg2 >>>> Please post your full dmesg output. >>> Yes please. >> dmesg's from 2.6.25-rc3 witch nohz={on,off} , lspci , dmidecode and >> the used config for this kernel can be found there : >> >> http://frugalware.org/~crazy/dmesg/lara/ > > Hmm. Nothing really obvious. If you want I can build an debug kernel and boot with initcall_debug or anything else may help to find the problem, just let me know. > > Thanks, > tglx > Gabriel -- 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/