From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
Cc: linux@brodo.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: limit-timer_pm-printk-storms.patch
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:57:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120115751.5e4441bc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040120212514.43e31237.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> wrote:
>
> This patch has been inspired by the limit-IO-error-printk-storms patch. On my PII when I enable
> CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER this gets called a lot of times, I guess my VIA chipset is too broken to play with this.
>
> <example>
> ...
> Jan 19 04:21:46 bongani kernel: bad pmtmr read: (15567390, 15567423, 15567393)
> Jan 19 04:21:46 bongani kernel: bad pmtmr read: (1746710, 1746719, 1746713)
> Jan 19 04:21:47 bongani kernel: bad pmtmr read: (2239982, 2239999, 2239986)
Does the PM timer actually do the right thing once these printk's are
suppressed?
If not, it would be better to recover somehow - presumably by blacklisting
this machine or by falling back to a different time source. Possible?
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20040120212514.43e31237.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
2004-01-20 19:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-20 20:27 ` limit-timer_pm-printk-storms.patch Bongani Hlope
2004-01-20 21:05 ` limit-timer_pm-printk-storms.patch john stultz
2004-01-21 8:26 ` limit-timer_pm-printk-storms.patch Dominik Brodowski
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