From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932622AbWBEFIK (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 00:08:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932621AbWBEFIJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 00:08:09 -0500 Received: from mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.8]:24846 "EHLO mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932622AbWBEFII (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 00:08:08 -0500 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Ed Sweetman Subject: Re: athlon 64 dual core tsc out of sync Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 05:08:08 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Lee Revell , Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <787b0d920602041224p660911b5mc4d639581736e96f@mail.gmail.com> <1139105306.2791.83.camel@mindpipe> <43E56ACA.5050108@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <43E56ACA.5050108@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602050508.08228.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 05 February 2006 03:02, Ed Sweetman wrote: [snip] > In any case it's been generally accepted that pm timer is suggested to > get around these errors, but i've been unable to use mine, there is no > config option in menuconfig/gconfig etc and my .config seems to show > that it's compiled in. Boot args like timer=pmtmr and just pmtmr and > having nothing have resulted in the same dmesg output , with no mention > of using the pm-timer. I know I used it in 2.6.14.3 and never had any > sync issues, my setup and config hasn't changed since then except for > the use of libata for pata. So how can i determine what's going on > here? Default or not, i'd like to get the pmtmr in use if it's what > works. On x86 (NOT x86-64), clock=pmtmr does what you want. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.