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Message-Id: <1190574641.4035.148.camel@chaos>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:10:41 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325,
related to clockevents
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Unfortunately, my observation that the patch series:
>
> http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2
>
> worked with 2.6.23-rc4 was wrong. It _sometimes_ works, but usually doesn't
> boot, just like 2.6.23-rc4-mm1, 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 and everything in between with
> the above patch series applied. I've also tried:
>
> http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc5/patch-2.6.23-rc5-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2
> http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc6/patch-2.6.23-rc6-hrt2.patch
>
> with the same result.
>
> The problematic patch is x86_64-convert-to-clockevents.patch .
>
> Since the boot fails very early, before any messages reach the (VGA) console,
> I have no idea what to do next, except for digging in the code.
Ok, lets track it down. Is there any difference when you add:
nohz=off
highres=off
noapictimer
or any combinations of the above to the kernel command line ?
tglx
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