On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:39 AM, ambrosehuang ambrose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2011/8/16 Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> >> >> FWIW here's a patch I needed to get buildworld to complete against head >> (as of today): >> >> Index: secure/libexec/ssh-keysign/Makefile >> =================================================================== >> --- secure/libexec/ssh-keysign/Makefile (revision 224899) >> +++ secure/libexec/ssh-keysign/Makefile (working copy) >> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ >> # $FreeBSD$ >> >> PROG= ssh-keysign >> -SRCS= ssh-keysign.c readconf.c roaming_dummy.c >> +SRCS= ssh-keysign.c buffer.c readconf.c roaming_dummy.c >> MAN= ssh-keysign.8 >> CFLAGS+=-I${SSHDIR} -include ssh_namespace.h >> .if defined(ENABLE_SUID_SSH) >> Index: sys/dev/acpica/acpi_hpet.c >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Alexander Motin <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> On 16.08.2011 00:13, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Alexander Motin<[email protected]> >> >>>> wrote: >> >>>>> >> >>>>> On 15.08.2011 23:57, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Alexander Motin<[email protected]> >> >>>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> On 15.08.2011 22:18, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Joe Schaefer<[email protected]> >> >>>>>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Andriy Gapon<[email protected]> >> >>>>>>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> on 13/08/2011 20:16 Joe Schaefer said the following: >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Brand new machine with a Phenom II X6 1100T and under chronic >> >>>>>>>>>>> load >> >>>>>>>>>>> the clock will stop running periodically until the machine >> >>>>>>>>>>> eventually >> >>>>>>>>>>> completely >> >>>>>>>>>>> freezes. Note: during these stalls the kernel is still >> >>>>>>>>>>> running, >> >>>>>>>>>>> the >> >>>>>>>>>>> machine is still >> >>>>>>>>>>> mostly responsive, it's just that the clock is frozen in time. >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> I've disabled Turbo mode in the bios and toyed with just about >> >>>>>>>>>>> every >> >>>>>>>>>>> other setting but nothing seems to resolve this problem. >> >>>>>>>>>>> Based on >> >>>>>>>>>>> the >> >>>>>>>>>>> behavior >> >>>>>>>>>>> of the machine (just making buildworld will eventually kill >> >>>>>>>>>>> it, >> >>>>>>>>>>> upping >> >>>>>>>>>>> the -j flag >> >>>>>>>>>>> just kills it faster), I'm guessing it has something to do >> >>>>>>>>>>> with the >> >>>>>>>>>>> Digi+ VRM features >> >>>>>>>>>>> but again nothing I've tried modifying in the bios seems to >> >>>>>>>>>>> help. >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> I've tried both 8.2-RELEASE and FreeBSD 9 (head). Running >> >>>>>>>>>>> head now >> >>>>>>>>>>> with >> >>>>>>>>>>> a dtrace enabled kernel. >> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Suggestions? >> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> On head, start with checking what source is used for driving >> >>>>>>>>>> clocks: >> >>>>>>>>>> sysctl kern.eventtimer >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> % sysctl kern.eventtimer >> >>>>>>>>> [master] >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.choice: HPET(450) HPET1(450) HPET2(450) >> >>>>>>>>> LAPIC(400) >> >>>>>>>>> i8254(100) RTC(0) >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 15 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 0 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 400 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET.flags: 3 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET.frequency: 14318180 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET.quality: 450 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET1.flags: 3 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET1.frequency: 14318180 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET1.quality: 450 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET2.flags: 3 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET2.frequency: 14318180 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET2.quality: 450 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0 >> >>>>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.timer: HPET >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >>>>>>>> Changing this to "i8254" seems to have resolved the stalls. >> >>>>>>>> I'm running buildworld -j12 without issue. More than willing >> >>>>>>>> to test out a patch or two against head if anyone's still >> >>>>>>>> interested, otherwise I've thrown the change into loader.conf >> >>>>>>>> and will move along quietly. >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> 8.2-RELEASE you've mentioned doesn't have event timers subsystem >> >>>>>>> and >> >>>>>>> HPET >> >>>>>>> timer driver. That makes me think it is strange at least. Can you >> >>>>>>> try >> >>>>>>> also >> >>>>>>> LAPIC timer and do alike experiments with kern.timeocunter? >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> My problems with 8.2-RELEASE may have been network based. I don't >> >>>>>> recall >> >>>>>> precisely if the clock was stalling there, my guess is no based on >> >>>>>> what you wrote. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> I'll test LAPIC next ... so far so good. Just so I'm clear, you'd >> >>>>>> like me to tweak >> >>>>>> kern.timecounter.hardware as well? (Currently it's HPET). >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Yes. Instead. Ticking clock depends on both timecounter and >> >>>>> eventtimer. >> >>>> >> >>>> Haven't found a combination that hangs my machine other than with the >> >>>> eventtimer at HPET. >> >>> >> >>> I mean trying eventtimer HPET and different timecounters. >> >> >> >> Doesn't seem to help. Eventtimer HPET and timecounter ACPI-fast still >> >> stalls. >> >> >> >>> >> >>> If changing timecounter won't help, try please this patch: >> >>> >> >>> --- acpi_hpet.c.prev 2010-12-25 11:28:45.000000000 +0200 >> >>> +++ acpi_hpet.c 2011-05-11 14:30:59.000000000 +0300 >> >>> @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ restart: >> >>> bus_write_4(sc->mem_res, HPET_TIMER_COMPARATOR(t->num), >> >>> t->next); >> >>> } >> >>> - if (fdiv < 5000) { >> >>> + if (1 || fdiv < 5000) { >> >>> bus_read_4(sc->mem_res, HPET_TIMER_COMPARATOR(t->num)); >> >>> now = bus_read_4(sc->mem_res, HPET_MAIN_COUNTER); >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Alexander Motin >> >> >> >> Will do next. >> >> >> > >> > Patch applied. Running with HPET eventtimer and no stalls during >> > make buildworld -j12. >> > > > it maybe help, I used to come across a bug on Linux with regard to HPET, > some northbridge chipset (maybe amd's, where > HPET sit on) has a problem, that writes to compatitor regs will not take > effect immediately, you need a read to reg to flush it;
So far the patch performs flawlessly for me. I'm tempted to reenable turbo mode just for kicks (someday, not today- delighted with the uptime!) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"

