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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:51:19 +0100
From: Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de>
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To: Andrew Drake <zappacky.lists@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Funny problem with 2.6.28: Kernel stalls
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Andrew Drake schrieb:
> Michael Roth wrote:
>> The funny part: If I hit any key (on the keyboard connected by USB) the
>> kernel resumes to normal work until the next stall.
>>
> 
> This sounds a little bit like my old problem... try kernel option nolapic_timer.
> It worked for me, perhaps it can do the same for you.

I didn't checked nolapic_timer (yet), but found these small changes to
the kernel config do the trick for me:


--- config-not-working  2008-12-28 16:09:29.000000000 +0100
+++ .config     2008-12-28 16:15:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -153,9 +153,8 @@
 #
 # Processor type and features
 #
-CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT=y
 # CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set
-CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y
+# CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is not set
 CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD=y
 # CONFIG_SMP is not set
 # CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE is not set
@@ -278,7 +277,7 @@
 # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set
 CONFIG_HZ_1000=y
 CONFIG_HZ=1000
-CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK=y
+# CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK is not set
 # CONFIG_KEXEC is not set
 # CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is not set
 CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
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