linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for June 13: IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:38:37 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for June 13: IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325

On Tuesday, 17 of June 2008, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > May I gently ask that the patch ("x86: I/O APIC: timer through 8259A second-chance")
> > be reverted?
> 
>  We're trying to find a solution for a long-standing problem and this
> patch is a step in that direction.  We need to find out exactly what is
> going wrong with the HP nx6325 system and removing the patch would make us
> lose the opportunity to get things right in this area.  At the time I
> submitted that patch I warned a lot of testing would be required before it
> goes upstream and hopefully my request will get honored.  If you do not
> want to participate in testing for whatever reason, you have the right to
> do so, but I insist on the patch to stay at least until we know the source
> of the problem and conclude there is no other way to get it fixed.  Len
> reported he's got the same system and it behaves the same, so I hope he'll
> be able to do the testing if you decide to opt out.

I can do the testing actually, but IMO putting that patch into linux-next was a
mistake.

>  Unfortunately the 64-bit variation has a lot of necessary logging
> disabled by default (as you have now discovered with the need to rename
> apic_printk() to printk()), so my plan is to cook up a patch to enable all
> the available logging facilities around that code first.

Well, that's easy.  I can send you a dmesg output with all of the printk()s in
there functional if that helps, but frankly I don't see how this is going to
get you more information than I've already posted.

Thanks,
Rafael
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