On Friday 04 May 2007 23:44:08 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2007 14:29:04 -0700 > john stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of the 2.6.21 regressions was Guilherme's problem seeing his box > > lock up when the system detected an unstable TSC and dropped back to > > using the HPET. > > > > In digging deeper, we found the HPET is not actually incrementing on > > this system. And in fact, the reason why this issue just cropped up was > > because of Thomas's clocksource watchdog code was comparing the TSC to > > the HPET (which wasn't moving) and thought the TSC was broken. > > > > Anyway, Guliherme checked for a BIOS update and did not find one, so > > I've added a DMI blacklist against his system so the HPET is not used. > > > > Many thanks to Guilherme for the slow and laborious testing that finally > > narrowed down this issue. > > > > OK, I tagged that for -stable too.
Don't please. It is completely the wrong approach. DMI should be only last resort, not first. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
