From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758483AbXI0UpH (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:45:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754896AbXI0Uoz (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:44:55 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:44290 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754582AbXI0Uoy (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:44:54 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: "Dmitry Tyschenko" Subject: Re: NO_HZ hangs up AMD MK-36 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:59:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709272259.26412.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, 27 September 2007 22:28, Dmitry Tyschenko wrote: > Hello, > > I have laptop Asus X50M. Using old Debian Etch from February. > Kernel from 2.6.21 doesn't boot, hangs up just in 10seconds - 1minute > after GRUB screen. > I have tryed different versions of gcc (4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.2.1) to build > 2.6.22.8 kernel, but no results. > But if I disable NO_HZ option 2.6.21 is working fine for me. > > I think this is important problem, because some of the project, Debian > for example, > are building kernel with this options enabled (in > linux-image-2.6.22-1-k7 package it is enabled), > and some people, like me, can not use new kernels. > > I have attached some of my PC info, hope this can help You can use the "nohz=off" kernel command line switch. Please check if it works for you. Greetings, Rafael