On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:10:46AM -0500, Andrew Paprocki wrote: > > > > I applied the patch to my 2.6.23.13 tree and upon reboot it stopped > > > > right after: > > > > > > > > Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = ... ns) > > > > Time: hpet clocksource has been installed. > > > > > > > > It locked up hard.. cursor stopped blinking and SysRq isn't working > > > > either. > > > > The hint is in the original report: > > > > Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 500013666 ns) > > > > That means, that the TSC was counting, but HPET not. So it looks like > > the HPET readout is stale. Which explains, why after switching to HPET > > clocksource the time system gets hosed. > > > > I wonder why the HPET counter works check did not catch this. > > > > Can you please apply the path below and provide the output ?
This time against 2.6.23 Thanks, tglx --- a/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) unsigned long id; uint64_t hpet_freq; u64 tmp, start, now; - cycle_t t1; + cycle_t t1, t2; if (!is_hpet_capable()) return 0; @@ -295,12 +295,17 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) rdtscll(now); } while ((now - start) < 200000UL); - if (t1 == read_hpet()) { + t2 = read_hpet(); + if (t1 == t2) { printk(KERN_WARNING "HPET counter not counting. HPET disabled\n"); goto out_nohpet; } + printk(KERN_INFO "HPET check: t1=%llu t2=%llu s=%llu n=%llu\n", + (unsigned long long) t1, (unsigned long long) t2, + (unsigned long long) start, (unsigned long long) now); + /* Initialize and register HPET clocksource * * hpet period is in femto seconds per cycle -- 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/