Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Thanks for trying it out. What kind of hardware do you have? Does it
> have HPET? It looks like no suitable timer for dyn-tick is found...
> Maybe the following patch helps?
> 
> Tony

Does 'different crash' qualify as "helping"?  :)

With this additional patch, I get this line followed by a system hang:
[4294688.246000] dyn-tick: Maximum ticks to skip limited to 2693

With "nmi_watchdog=1", the "dyn-tick: Maximum..." line is followed by
(my serial console stops logging):
<4>[4294688.741000] NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0, eip c011a2ab,
registers:
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c011a2ab>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00000046  (2.6.12-rc2-dyntick)
EIP is at smp_apic_timer_interrupt
... etc ...

This is on my Dell Inspiron 9200:
/proc/cpuinfo:
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 598.130
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2
bogomips        : 1183.74

Attached are the serial log and the .config.  HPET is enabled, and
appears to be detected.

Let me know if you need any additional info or need me to try anything
else out.

Frank
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
Systems Manager, Computer Science Department
Brigham Young University
frank@tuxrocks.com