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Message-ID: <46FAEBAC.1010603@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:30:52 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"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]
On 09/26/2007 06:35 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> It's even worse than I thought on the first check:
>
> "noapictimer" on the command line of an SMP box prevents _ONLY_ the boot
> CPU apic timer from being used. But the secondary CPU is still
> unconditionally setting up the APIC timer and uses the non calibrated
> variable calibration_result, which is of course 0, to setup the APIC
> timer. Wreckage guaranteed.
>
Well, that would explain a lot of the things I've been seeing...
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