From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755774AbYICTBg (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:01:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753774AbYICTB2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:01:28 -0400 Received: from inhex.net ([193.33.178.145]:55054 "EHLO inhex.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752543AbYICTB1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:01:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 22:01:05 +0300 From: Dmitry Nezhevenko To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" , herton@mandriva.com.br, Mikhail Kshevetskiy , LKML Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc5 doesn't boot on a Pavilion laptop Message-ID: <20080903190105.GA3660@laptop.local> References: <20080902175544.131bc54e@doriath.conectiva> <20080903104132.7a736282@doriath.conectiva> <20080903164415.GA24442@laptop.local> <20080903143653.68bb58df@doriath.conectiva> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:40:55PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > I now see why this is happening and it is happening only on systems > with a fast HPET. Your's running 25MHz, so the delta is only 1.92 > usec. I was staring at lots of those bugreports without noticing the > frequency. > > Sigh. The idea to take a fixed number of HPET cycles as the minimum > was not really brilliant it seems. > > Does the patch below help ? Keep the debug patch applied, as we can > see whether the check triggers or not. Works for me... I'm just got only second backtrace after mounting rootfs. Looks like something is broken with git tree. -- WBR, Dmitry