Re: 2.6.27-rc5 doesn't boot on a Pavilion laptop

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
> | Find a debug patch below, which looks at the two functions which might
> | loop forver under certain conditions. Does one of the checks hit ?
> 
>  I can actually boot with this patch. Was this intended?

Yes. That was the only point, where a hard hang could happen.
 
>  As the dmesg has various WARN_ON() outputs I'm attaching it, this is
> the first one:
> 
> """
> PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
> DMAR:parse DMAR table failure.
> hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 31
> hpet0: 3 32-bit timers, 25000000 Hz
> Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
>
> tick_broadcast_set_event is stuck f09fa64 f0a01e4

Hmm, so we fail to force program that HPET with the standard minimum
delta.

I now see why this is happening and it is happening only on systems
with a fast HPET. Your's running 25MHz, so the delta is only 1.92
usec. I was staring at lots of those bugreports without noticing the
frequency.

Sigh. The idea to take a fixed number of HPET cycles as the minimum
was not really brilliant it seems.

Does the patch below help ? Keep the debug patch applied, as we can
see whether the check triggers or not.

Thanks,

	tglx
---
 arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ static void hpet_legacy_clockevent_regis
 	/* Calculate the min / max delta */
 	hpet_clockevent.max_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0x7FFFFFFF,
 							   &hpet_clockevent);
-	hpet_clockevent.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0x30,
-							   &hpet_clockevent);
+	/* 5 usec minimum reprogramming delta. */
+	hpet_clockevent.min_delta_ns = 5000;
 
 	/*
 	 * Start hpet with the boot cpu mask and make it