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

[Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com>]

Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> BIOS EBDA/lowmem at: 0009f000/0009f000
>> Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
>> Linux version 2.6.28.3-1000Hz (root@harley) (gcc version 4.3.1 20080507
>> (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) ) #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb9
>> KERNEL supported cpus:
>>   Intel GenuineIntel
>>   AMD AuthenticAMD
>>   NSC Geode by NSC
>>   Cyrix CyrixInstead
>>   Centaur CentaurHauls
>>   Transmeta GenuineTMx86
>>   Transmeta TransmetaCPU
>>   UMC UMC UMC UMC
>> 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)
>> DMI 2.5 present.
>> Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working it around.
>> last_pfn = 0xbffe0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
>> x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
>> RAMDISK: 374d0000 - 37feff67
>> Allocated new RAMDISK: 004a7000 - 00fc6f67
>> Move RAMDISK from 00000000374d0000 - 0000000037feff66 to 004a7000 - 00fc6f66
>> ACPI: RSDP 000F7FB0, 0024 (r2 RX780 )
>> ACPI: XSDT BFFE3080, 004C (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
>> ACPI: FACP BFFE8C80, 00F4 (r3 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
>> FADT: X_PM1a_EVT_BLK.bit_width (8) does not match PM1_EVT_LEN (4)
>> ACPI: DSDT BFFE3200, 5A71 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI     1000 MSFT  100000E)
>> ACPI: FACS BFFE0000, 0040
>> ACPI: SSDT BFFE8E40, 088C (r1 PTLTD  POWERNOW        1  LTP        1)
>> ACPI: HPET BFFE9700, 0038 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD       98)
>> ACPI: MCFG BFFE9740, 003C (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
>> ACPI: APIC BFFE8D80, 0084 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
>> 2183MB HIGHMEM available.
>> 887MB LOWMEM available.
>>   mapped low ram: 0 - 377fe000
>>   low ram: 00000000 - 377fe000
>>   bootmap 00012000 - 00018f00
>> (9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 00377fe000]
>>   #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000]   BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
>>   #1 [0000001000 - 0000002000]    EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
>>   #2 [0000006000 - 0000007000]       TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
>>   #3 [0000100000 - 00004a3c54]    TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 00004a3c54]
>>   #4 [00004a4000 - 00004a7000]    INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [00004a4000 - 00004a7000]
>>   #5 [000009f000 - 0000100000]    BIOS reserved ==> [000009f000 - 0000100000]
>>   #6 [0000010000 - 0000012000]          PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000012000]
>>   #7 [00004a7000 - 0000fc6f67]      NEW RAMDISK ==> [00004a7000 - 0000fc6f67]
>>   #8 [0000012000 - 0000019000]          BOOTMAP ==> [0000012000 - 0000019000]
>> Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes.
>> Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes.
>> Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes.
>> found SMP MP-table at [c00f3f00] 000f3f00
>> Zone PFN ranges:
>>   DMA      0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
>>   Normal   0x00001000 -> 0x000377fe
>>   HighMem  0x000377fe -> 0x000bffe0
>> Movable zone start PFN for each node
>> early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
>>     0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009f
>>     0: 0x00000100 -> 0x000bffe0
>> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
>> 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)
>> Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
>> ACPI: HPET id: 0x10b9a201 base: 0xfed00000
>> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
>> SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
>> mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
>> mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
>> Allocating PCI resources starting at c2000000 (gap: c0000000:20000000)
>> PERCPU: Allocating 36864 bytes of per cpu data
>> Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 780143
>> Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_6QF4HDV5-part5
>> hwprobe=-modules.pata apm=off selinux=0 noresume splash=silent apic=debug console=g
>> 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)
>> Fast TSC calibration using PIT
>> Detected 3000.297 MHz processor.
>> 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: 3103456k/3145600k available (1835k kernel code, 40784k reserved, 1099k
>> data, 276k init, 2236296k highmem)
>> virtual kernel memory layout:
>>     fixmap  : 0xffe19000 - 0xfffff000   (1944 kB)
>>     pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
>>     vmalloc : 0xf7ffe000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 120 MB)
>>     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf77fe000   ( 887 MB)
>>       .init : 0xc03e3000 - 0xc0428000   ( 276 kB)
>>       .data : 0xc02caf97 - 0xc03ddc4c   (1099 kB)
>>       .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02caf97   (1835 kB)
>> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
>> SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
>> HPET0 prog. values: now 20642, delta 14318, cfg: 0x15c,
>> HPET: 4 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer
>> Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency..
>> 6000.59 BogoMIPS (lpj=3000297)
>> Security Framework initialized
>> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
>> CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
>> CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
>> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
>> CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
>> using C1E aware idle routine
>> Checking 'hlt' instruction...
> 
> now if you retry the same thing, does the machine hang with the exact
> same output/at the exact same place in the boot process or it differs
> each time?
> 

Yes, now it does. I've done it about 5 times. Same...

Mark