linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: check

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Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:34:21 +0000 (GMT)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: check_timer cleanup

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> >  What problems are you referring to, Ingo?  Perhaps they should be looked 
> > into specifically?
> 
> I got a spurious boot failure on a 64-bi testbox:
> 
> [    0.280000] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> [    0.296000] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> [    0.296000] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
> [    0.296000] ..... (found apic 0 pin 2) ...
> [    0.308000] ....... failed.
> [    0.308000] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ...
> [    0.324000] ..... failed.
> [    0.324000] ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ...
> [    0.340000] ..... failed :(.
> [    0.340000] Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!  Boot with apic=debug and send a report.  Then try booting with the 'noapic' option.
> 
> Not reproducible. Full bootlog below.

 If so, it could have been anything.  Even a casual hardware failure.  The 
timer retriggers by itself producing both edges automatically, so even if 
an edge is missed because of the mask, another one follows shortly.  I 
don't think the change proposed by Yinghai would make any difference here.

 Pity you can't use an in-circuit debugger with the x86... :(

  Maciej
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