linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched: disable hrtick implementation

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Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:54:35 -0700
From:	Justin Madru <jdm64@...ab.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Januszewski <spock@...too.org>,
	Antonino Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Romano Giannetti <romano.giannetti@...il.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Jeremy Nickurak <kernel-bugs@...us.rifetech.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched: disable hrtick implementation

The hrtick implementation in 2.6.25 and .26 has been known to cause boot
problems with at least Intel GMA cards. see:

 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15602
 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10892

A full fix to hrtick went into 2.6.27 
(31656519e132f6612584815f128c83976a9aaaef),
but that fix is too intrusive to backport. Henceforth, we default to 
disable hrtick.

Signed-off-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@...ab.com>
Tested-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@...ab.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

--- a/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 SCHED_FEAT(AFFINE_WAKEUPS, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(CACHE_HOT_BUDDY, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_WAKEUPS, 1)
-SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, 1)
+SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, 0)
 SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, 0)
 SCHED_FEAT(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(DEADLINE, 1)

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