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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709261521440.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:22:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and
 -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)



On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 
> > 1) current Linus' tree doesn't boot with any command line (regression)
> > 
> > [  Linus, please revert commit e66485d747505e9d960b864fc6c37f8b2afafaf0

Reverted.

> OK, this explains 2) and 3). I just looked into the code and the logic
> vs. noapictimer on SMP is completely broken.

..and thanks for the explanation.

Thanks for finding it so quickly guys. Sounds like this will be fixed 
properly in 2.6.24 with the x86 merge (which hopefully brings in the hrt 
patch too)

		Linus
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