Re: PROBLEM: Can't boot a (HZ = 1000) kernel using an AMD Phenom-II processor

[Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>]

Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:19:37PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
>> A tickless kernel didn't change anything. I did get a serial console connected
>> and below is what I got. I don't see much usefull. Attached is the config.
> 
> Nope, not really. It happens really early in the process for initcalls.
> By the way, is the system then completely locked up or you can enter
> characters from the keyboard?
> 

No. When it happens the keyboard is dead.

>> Press any key to continue.
>> root (hd0,0)
>>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.8-1000Hz  root=/dev/sda5 hwprobe=-modules.pata apm=off s
>> elinux=0 noresume splash=silent debug initcall_debug log_buf_len=10M console=tt
>> yS0,19200n8 vga=normal
>>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x2e00, size=0x1827c0]
>> initrd /initrd-2.6.26.8-1000Hz
>>    [Linux-initrd @ 0x37622000, 0x9cdf42 bytes]
>>
>> Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
>> Linux version 2.6.26.8-1000Hz (root@harley) (gcc version 4.3.1 20080507
>> (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) ) #5 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb9
> 
> Is this actually a Suse distribution kernel (with a lot of patches on it) or a stock one?
> 

I don't use SuSE's kernels, just the dist. Every thing I'll be using while your
helping me will be
stock and not tainted.

>> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
>>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bffe0000 (usable)
>>  BIOS-e820: 00000000bffe0000 - 00000000bffe3000 (ACPI NVS)
>>  BIOS-e820: 00000000bffe3000 - 00000000bfff0000 (ACPI data)
>>  BIOS-e820: 00000000bfff0000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
>>  BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
>>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
>>  BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable)
>> x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
>> Warning only 4GB will be used.
>> Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled kernel.
>> 3200MB HIGHMEM available.
>> 896MB LOWMEM available.
>> found SMP MP-table at [c00f3f00] 000f3f00
>> Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 1048576) 0 entries of 256 used
>> Zone PFN ranges:
>>   DMA             0 ->     4096
>>   Normal       4096 ->   229376
>>   HighMem    229376 ->  1048576
>> Movable zone start PFN for each node
>> early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
>>     0:        0 ->  1048576
>> On node 0 totalpages: 1048576
>>   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
>>   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
>>   DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
>>   Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
>>   Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
>>   HighMem zone: 6400 pages used for memmap
>>   HighMem zone: 812800 pages, LIFO batch:31
>>   Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
>> DMI 2.5 present.
>> ACPI: RSDP 000F7FB0, 0024 (r2 RX780 )
>> ACPI: XSDT BFFE3080, 0044 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
>> ACPI: FACP BFFE8C80, 00F4 (r3 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
>> ACPI: DSDT BFFE3200, 5A71 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI     1000 MSFT  100000E)
>> ACPI: FACS BFFE0000, 0040
>> ACPI: HPET BFFE8E40, 0038 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD       98)
>> ACPI: MCFG BFFE8E80, 003C (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
>> ACPI: APIC BFFE8D80, 0084 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
>> ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
>> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
>> ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
>> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
>> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
>> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
>> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
>> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
>> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
>> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
>> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
>> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
>> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
>> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
>> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
>> ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
>> ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
>> ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
>> Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
>> ACPI: HPET id: 0x10b9a201 base: 0xfed00000
>> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
>> Allocating PCI resources starting at c2000000 (gap: c0000000:20000000)
>> SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
>> PERCPU: Allocating 38788 bytes of per cpu data
>> NR_CPUS: 32, nr_cpu_ids: 4
>> Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 1040384
>> Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda5 hwprobe=-modules.pata apm=off selinux=0
>> noresume splash=silent debug initcall_debug log_buf_len=10M console=ttyS0,19200l
>> log_buf_len: 16777216
>> mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
>> mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
>> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
>> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
>> Initializing CPU#0
>> Preemptible RCU implementation.
>> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
>> Detected 3360.327 MHz processor.
> 
> Is your CPU overclocked?
> 

It is as of yesterday. I am not a gamer though.

>> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
>> console [ttyS0] enabled
>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
>> Memory: 3080904k/4194304k available (1751k kernel code, 63472k reserved, 730k
>> data, 216k init, 2228096k highmem)
>> virtual kernel memory layout:
>>     fixmap  : 0xffe15000 - 0xfffff000   (1960 kB)
>>     pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
>>     vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 111 MB)
>>     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
>>       .init : 0xc0373000 - 0xc03a9000   ( 216 kB)
>>       .data : 0xc02b5ca2 - 0xc036c6d0   ( 730 kB)
>>       .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02b5ca2   (1751 kB)
>> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
>> CPA: page pool initialized 1 of 1 pages preallocated
>> SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
> 
> Ok, here are two things you could try:
> 
> Disable CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS (high resolution timers support in
> "Processor type and features"), boot with "apic=debug" and send me the
> output. I'd like to see how the lapic timer gets programmed. It would
> be better for that exercise to get the latest stable kernel, 2.6.28.3,
> imho.
> 
> The other thing you could do is get x86info tools from here:
> http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info/. However, get either a
> daily snapshot or a checkout from the git repository and build it on
> your system. Then do
> 
> x86info -a > x86info.txt
> 
> lsmsr -V3 -a > lsmsr.txt
> 
> and send me those text files - we might be able to get a clue what's going on
> from them.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Ok, I'll do the rest of what you asked tonight.

Regards
Mark