Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753171AbYCMSRS (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:17:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753796AbYCMSRJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:17:09 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:47373 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751926AbYCMSRI (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:17:08 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem with git-sched.patch From: Badari Pulavarty To: Guillaume Chazarain Cc: Andrew Morton , a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu, vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com, lkml In-Reply-To: <3d8471ca0803131055w247386e7g9bbea665bf78ca6e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080311011434.ad8c8d7d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1205345451.23611.6.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20080312111509.301c9d24.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1205428180.19403.15.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <1205430028.19403.19.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <3d8471ca0803131055w247386e7g9bbea665bf78ca6e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:20:09 -0800 Message-Id: <1205432409.19403.24.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1087 Lines: 32 On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 18:55 +0100, Guillaume Chazarain wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > commit 60befbc1c0b6d141c9c26e61ddd303aedd1e7396 > > Author: Guillaume Chazarain > > Date: Mon Mar 10 08:16:41 2008 +0100 > > > > sched: make sure jiffies is up to date before calling > > __update_rq_clock() > > I didn't know this patch could prevent booting, but anyway it should > have been removed a long time ago: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/25/408 > I don't know whats happening either, but my debug shows that tick_nohz_update_jiffies() always returns due to following check without calling touch_softlockup_watchdog(). if (!ts->tick_stopped) return; BTW, I have CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y in my config. Thanks, Badari -- 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/