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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jeremy Cline <jeremy@jcline.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	rui.zhang@intel.com, len.brown@intel.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, regressions@leemhuis.info,
	Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Regression: x86/tsc: Fix mark_tsc_unstable()
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:38:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180611143801.GH12235@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180611141742.GP12198@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 04:17:42PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 01:59:15PM +0000, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> > A user has bisected the problem to the v4.16 commit 1ab4ca7c59d4
> > ("x86/tsc: Fix mark_tsc_unstable()"). According to the reporter,
> > explicitly setting "tsc=" on the kernel command line causes the boot to
> > always succeed. All the users have Thinkpad T500s or T400s (Core 2 Duos)
> 
> Weird. So Core2 typically triggers mark_tsc_unstable() in either
> intel_idle or processor_idle. ISTR testing that when I did the patches.
> 
> When I make that mark_tsc_unstable() in the idle drivers unconditional
> and boot my ivb with that, it doesn't want to fail. I've booted the
> machine 5 consequctive times without issue.
> 
> Let me try and checkout -stable, maybe something's up with that.

Nope -stable seems to be working as well on the IVB (with modification).
I just dug up my T500 and that's actually still running the test kernel.
Let me try and build the -stable kernel for that.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-11 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-11 13:59 Jeremy Cline
2018-06-11 14:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-11 14:38   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-06-11 15:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-11 17:56       ` Jeremy Cline
2018-06-11 18:11         ` Jeremy Cline
2018-06-11 19:23           ` Diego Viola
2018-06-11 21:31             ` Jeremy Cline
2018-06-11 17:47 ` Diego Viola

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