linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.37-rc5] Timer or ICE1724 issues, HZ=250, NO

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Message-ID: <20101213111900.GA2310@gentoo.trippels.de>
Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:19:00 +0100
From:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
To:	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.37-rc5] Timer or ICE1724 issues, HZ=250, NO_HZ=y

On 2010.12.13 at 02:54 -0800, Simon Kirby wrote:
> With Linus git HEAD just compiled earlier today, I noticed a weird issue
> just now while in the middle of some coding.  I think this may have
> happened before (maybe in 2.6.36), but not as obvious as this time.
> 
> The music that was playing stopped, and the key I had just pressed did
> not show up in rxvt.  I figured the machine had hung, but I hit another
> key and the music played again for another second and my _previous_
> keystroke output appeared.
> 
> Looking at /proc/interrupts, "timer" had completely stopped.  "perf top"
> showed "snd_pcm_hwsync" was at the top of the profile with about 80%
> usage.  Spinning in "snd_pcm_stream_lock_irq" from other CPUs, probably..
> 
> dmesg showed:
> 
> [13995.498393] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -8589909196 ns)
> [13995.511452] Switching to clocksource hpet
> [14039.525074] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 100
> [14039.882183] hrtimer: interrupt took 30800 ns
> [14134.540724] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 100

Welcome to the club. This is a known problem on newer AMD systems see:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1054283
and the following patch:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1069458

But the real problem is that no patch found its way to Linus yet and
2.6.37 will be released in a few days. 

I think Thomas' solution (with a hardcoded hpet_min_tick):
     return res < 128 ? -ETIME : 0;
is the only sane option left this late in the series.
-- 
Markus
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