linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work

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Date:	Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:50:46 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Paul Fulghum <paulkf@...rogate.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work

Paul Fulghum <paulkf@...rogate.com> writes:

> On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 01:38 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> It's remove-timer-fallback likely. I was working on that already.
>> 
>> Some boards go into the timer fallback path since 2.6.17/64bit for so 
>> far unknown reasons and that doesn't work anymore because I removed the 
>> fallback path.
>
> remove-timer-fallback did not reverse cleanly against 2.6.18-rc2-mm1
>
> I tried to patch it up and got it to compile without
> errors or warnings. The result was a hard freeze early in
> the boot, so I suspect more is necessary to restore that
> function.

Any chance you can post the your reversed version of remove-timer-fallback
so we can have a clue about what happened.

Eric
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