Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756662AbYHMAec (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:34:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755448AbYHMAbL (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:31:11 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.226]:47793 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755420AbYHMAbJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:31:09 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=o1B5El5zoRgVGseK1djv+BQZ8onEq0DSwK9DpJzPHw/VStekOUBhbsA0o2dLpU4wdN ktbqnodTPLSn3NDsIomeseus93AokB3xt14CDF5Lzfbtb6a5eJTEebJU/Q+C+n8KtHGL 3JNrgceKwRCiG/feZwetONVO6VRlxU6+k4TeU= Message-ID: <86802c440808121731y5481cf44m54990b88395483c4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:31:07 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "David Witbrodt" Subject: Re: HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25 -- experimental revert for 2.6.27 failed Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "H. Peter Anvin" , netdev In-Reply-To: <940473.79639.qm@web82108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <940473.79639.qm@web82108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1378 Lines: 31 On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:00 PM, David Witbrodt wrote: > SUMMARY > > 1. Ran 'git remote update', then built kernels for origin/master > (Linus' linux-2.6 tree) and tip/master. Both froze. > > 2. Attempted a revert against tip/master, but the files involved > changed quite a bit. I _was_ able to build the kernel successfully, > but it froze. There have simply been too many changes since Feb. 22 > for my naive approach to work. > > 3. When the revert failed, I panicked: I thought that I might > truly have made a mistake with the original 'git bisect' process > I carried out. After retracing the last few iterations of the > process -- building and checking the last 3 kernels -- I found > that the information I posted here WAS correct: the problem > commit # was the one I had found the first time. > > 4. To see if I am totally incompetent, I used git to checkout the > version of the sources at the problem commit, and then reverted > those changes (same method used in step 2). The kernel built > and ran just fine: no freeze, no need for "hpet=disabled". can you post /proc/iomem? YH -- 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/