linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/3] clockevents: Fix resume logic

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 11:27:41 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] clockevents: Fix resume logic - updated version

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 02:18 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > If that patch makes the problem go away, then we should have a quite
> > > > good hint what we need to look at.
> > > 
> > > No joy, sorry.  It still hangs at the last statement in acpi_evaluate_object().
> > 
> > Can you add "nolapic_timer" to the command line please ?
> > 
> 
> That works.

Ok, that boils it down to the change, which affects the lapic timer
resume. It does nothing else, than fiddling in some APIC registers, but
I don't see how this affects the ACPI stuff. This smells extremly fishy.

	tglx


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