Re: Dodgey Linus BogoMIPS code ;) (was Re: baffling linux bug)

[Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>]

David Burrows wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > I didn't see one thing mentioning Linus in there... ;)  I could sue if you
> > were selling something. ;)
> 
> Kind of.  Except Linus wrote the particular section of code in question.
> =)
> 
> > Anyway, jiffies are same as HZ and on i386 100 jiffies/sec, and one timer
> > interrupt per jiffie.
> 
> Or perhaps not in the case of my hardware functioning properly one day,
> and never to boot linux (but fine with everything else) again..
> 
> I need a sure fire way of testing whether the timer interrupt works,

I once used a printk in the keyboard irq handler to check a 
nonstandard keyboard.  You may put a printk() in the timer interrupt
handler.  
That should show that the irq handler works.  Of course you don't want
to
run such a log-filler for long... :-)

Maybe you can get the machine to boot by skipping the bogomips
calculation completely - by hardcoding the value your machine used to 
come up with?
Not for production use - just to get a debugging kernel going.

Helge Hafting