From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762038AbXIXTNo (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:13:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755322AbXIXTNh (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:13:37 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:55908 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752148AbXIXTNg (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:13:36 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents From: Thomas Gleixner To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , LKML , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <200709242111.07806.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <200709231257.12213.rjw@sisk.pl> <200709241718.23526.rjw@sisk.pl> <1190652380.4035.236.camel@chaos> <200709242111.07806.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:13:32 +0200 Message-Id: <1190661212.4035.242.camel@chaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 (2.12.0-3.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 21:11 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > /me scratches head > > Retested. > > > We know, that > > - disabling local apic timers work > > This works reproducibly accross the board. Ok > > - local apic timers (which turn off PIT) work. when noacpiFSCKEDPARSING > > This stopped working, although it evidently worked yesterday (wtf?). > > There seems to be a history effect in the box, to make things more > "interesting". Did you connect this box to Andrews VAIO during KS ? > I think the only solid data point so far is that "noapictimer" makes the box > boot. Ok. Can you add "nmi_watchdog=1" to the command line please. This runs through the calibration of APIC, but registers it as a dummy clock source (the PIT must run to make the watchdog work). If it boots, please provide the output of /proc/timer_list Thanks, tlgx