Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-30 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sunday 30 September 2007 16:06:59 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > >>> OK, this explains 2) and 3). I just looked into the code and the logic > >>> vs. noapictimer on SMP is completely broken. > > > > noapictimer really doesn't make any sense on non SMP imho

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: OK, this explains 2) and 3). I just looked into the code and the logic vs. noapictimer on SMP is completely broken. noapictimer really doesn't make any sense on non SMP imho with the old timer architecture. That is why I never bothered to implement it.

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-30 Thread Andi Kleen
> > PIT keeps jiffies (and the system) running, but the local APIC timer > interrupts can get out of sync due to this C1E effect. The way C1e works on AMD is that even when one core is woken up by the PIT the APIC timer resumes on the other core on the socket too because the deep power saving

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-30 Thread Andi Kleen
> > > OK, this explains 2) and 3). I just looked into the code and the logic > > vs. noapictimer on SMP is completely broken. noapictimer really doesn't make any sense on non SMP imho with the old timer architecture. That is why I never bothered to implement it. It's purely a UP hack. > ..and

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-30 Thread Andi Kleen
OK, this explains 2) and 3). I just looked into the code and the logic vs. noapictimer on SMP is completely broken. noapictimer really doesn't make any sense on non SMP imho with the old timer architecture. That is why I never bothered to implement it. It's purely a UP hack. ..and

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-30 Thread Andi Kleen
PIT keeps jiffies (and the system) running, but the local APIC timer interrupts can get out of sync due to this C1E effect. The way C1e works on AMD is that even when one core is woken up by the PIT the APIC timer resumes on the other core on the socket too because the deep power saving

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: OK, this explains 2) and 3). I just looked into the code and the logic vs. noapictimer on SMP is completely broken. noapictimer really doesn't make any sense on non SMP imho with the old timer architecture. That is why I never bothered to implement it.

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-30 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sunday 30 September 2007 16:06:59 Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: OK, this explains 2) and 3). I just looked into the code and the logic vs. noapictimer on SMP is completely broken. noapictimer really doesn't make any sense on non SMP imho with the old

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 01:30 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Tested for a couple of times with each kernel, the results seem to be > > > > reproducible 100% of the time. > > > > > > Thanks for going through this debug marathon.

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 27 September 2007 01:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 01:30 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Tested for a couple of times with each kernel, the results seem to be reproducible 100% of the time. Thanks for going through this debug marathon. No big

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 01:30 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Tested for a couple of times with each kernel, the results seem to be > > > reproducible 100% of the time. > > > > Thanks for going through this debug marathon. > > No big deal. I'm glad that you've found what's up. > > Well, we

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Thomas, On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 23:34, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Rafael, > > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > First, with the "x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems > > > > > with C1E" > > > > > patch and my collection of suspend patches

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:22 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > > > 1) current Linus' tree doesn't boot with any command line (regression) > > > > > > [ Linus, please revert commit e66485d747505e9d960b864fc6c37f8b2afafaf0 > > Reverted. > > >

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > 1) current Linus' tree doesn't boot with any command line (regression) > > > > [ Linus, please revert commit e66485d747505e9d960b864fc6c37f8b2afafaf0 Reverted. > OK, this explains 2) and 3). I just looked into the code and the logic > vs.

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rafael, On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > First, with the "x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems > > > > with C1E" > > > > patch and my collection of suspend patches applied, the box doesn't boot > > > > (the suspend patches don't even thouch the

[REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:49, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:51, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > There still are some oddities. > > > > > > First, with the "x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:51, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > There still are some oddities. > > > > First, with the "x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with > > C1E" > > patch and my collection of suspend patches

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > There still are some oddities. > > First, with the "x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with C1E" > patch and my collection of suspend patches applied, the box doesn't boot > (the suspend patches don't even thouch the

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Thomas, On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:24, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Rafael, > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 23:28 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > I'm a bit confused by your earlier confirmation, that mainline w/o the > > > -hrt patches boots fine, when you add "apicmaintimer" to the kernel > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Thomas, On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:24, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 23:28 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: I'm a bit confused by your earlier confirmation, that mainline w/o the -hrt patches boots fine, when you add apicmaintimer to the kernel command

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: There still are some oddities. First, with the x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with C1E patch and my collection of suspend patches applied, the box doesn't boot (the suspend patches don't even thouch the boot

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:51, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: There still are some oddities. First, with the x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with C1E patch and my collection of suspend patches applied, the

[REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:49, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:51, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: There still are some oddities. First, with the x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rafael, On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: First, with the x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with C1E patch and my collection of suspend patches applied, the box doesn't boot (the suspend patches don't even thouch the boot code, so they

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 1) current Linus' tree doesn't boot with any command line (regression) [ Linus, please revert commit e66485d747505e9d960b864fc6c37f8b2afafaf0 Reverted. OK, this explains 2) and 3). I just looked into the code and the logic vs.

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:22 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 1) current Linus' tree doesn't boot with any command line (regression) [ Linus, please revert commit e66485d747505e9d960b864fc6c37f8b2afafaf0 Reverted. OK, this explains 2)

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Thomas, On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 23:34, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Rafael, On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: First, with the x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with C1E patch and my collection of suspend patches applied, the box

Re: [REGRESSION from 2.6.23-rc8] (was: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents)

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 01:30 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Tested for a couple of times with each kernel, the results seem to be reproducible 100% of the time. Thanks for going through this debug marathon. No big deal. I'm glad that you've found what's up. Well, we still have

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 23:28 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > I'm a bit confused by your earlier confirmation, that mainline w/o the > > -hrt patches boots fine, when you add "apicmaintimer" to the kernel > > command line. "apicmaintimer" stops the PIT like we do in -hrt and we > > just

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Thomas, On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 22:46, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Rafael, > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 22:07 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > [--snip--] > > > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 22:07 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > [--snip--] > > > > I start to get desperate. Below is a patch, which moves the apic timer > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [--snip--] > > I start to get desperate. Below is a patch, which moves the apic timer > disable check after the calibration routine. Can you please apply on top > of -hrt and

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > There seems to be a history effect in the box, to make things more > > > "interesting". > > > > Did you connect this box to Andrews VAIO during KS ? > > No, but it's famous for being interestingly broken nevertheless. :) > > > I

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 21:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 21:11 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > /me scratches head > > > > Retested. > > > > > We know, that > > > - disabling local apic timers work > > > > This works reproducibly accross the board. > > Ok > > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 14:52, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 14:28, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with > > > > > > dualcore AMD > > > > > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 14:28, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore > > > > > AMD > > > > > processor. Do you have C1E feature enabled? > > > > That's possible,

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore AMD > > > > processor. Do you have C1E feature enabled? > > That's possible, how to check? > > > > > i386 kernel disable lapic on dualcore AMD with C1E

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Thomas, On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 11:30, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Rafael, > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:07 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: > > > Hello Thomas, Rafael > > > > > > > We know, that > > > > - disabling local apic

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:07 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: > > Hello Thomas, Rafael > > > > > We know, that > > > - disabling local apic timers work > > > > As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: > Hello Thomas, Rafael > > > We know, that > > - disabling local apic timers work > > As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore AMD > processor. Do you have C1E feature enabled? > > i386 kernel disable

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: Hello Thomas, Rafael We know, that - disabling local apic timers work As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore AMD processor. Do you have C1E feature enabled? i386 kernel disable lapic on

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:07 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: Hello Thomas, Rafael We know, that - disabling local apic timers work As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore AMD

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Thomas, On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 11:30, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:07 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: Hello Thomas, Rafael We know, that - disabling local apic timers work As

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore AMD processor. Do you have C1E feature enabled? That's possible, how to check? i386 kernel disable lapic on dualcore AMD with C1E support (see

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 14:28, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore AMD processor. Do you have C1E feature enabled? That's possible, how to check?

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 14:52, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 14:28, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore AMD processor. Do you

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 21:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 21:11 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: /me scratches head Retested. We know, that - disabling local apic timers work This works reproducibly accross the board. Ok - local apic timers

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: There seems to be a history effect in the box, to make things more interesting. Did you connect this box to Andrews VAIO during KS ? No, but it's famous for being interestingly broken nevertheless. :) I think the only

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [--snip--] I start to get desperate. Below is a patch, which moves the apic timer disable check after the calibration routine. Can you please apply on top of -hrt and add

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 22:07 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [--snip--] I start to get desperate. Below is a patch, which moves the apic timer disable check

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Thomas, On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 22:46, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 22:07 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [--snip--] I start to

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 23:28 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: I'm a bit confused by your earlier confirmation, that mainline w/o the -hrt patches boots fine, when you add apicmaintimer to the kernel command line. apicmaintimer stops the PIT like we do in -hrt and we just use the

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 21:11 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > /me scratches head > > Retested. > > > We know, that > > - disabling local apic timers work > > This works reproducibly accross the board. Ok > > - local apic timers (which turn off PIT) work. when noacpiFSCKEDPARSING > > This

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 18:46, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:18 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Well, "noacpi" seems to be a synonym for "pci=noacpi". > > > > > > > > Anyway, it causes acpi_disable_pci() to be executed, which according to > > > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:18 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Well, "noacpi" seems to be a synonym for "pci=noacpi". > > > > > > Anyway, it causes acpi_disable_pci() to be executed, which according to > > > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt means "Do not use ACPI for IRQ > > > routing or >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 16:23, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 15:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > So I really wonder, why noacpitimer on the kernel command line makes > > > > > any > > > > > difference. I'm confused. > > > > > > > > \metoo > > > > > > > > Well,

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 15:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > So I really wonder, why noacpitimer on the kernel command line makes any > > > > difference. I'm confused. > > > > > > \metoo > > > > > > Well, it was probably read as "noacpi". :-) > > > > Hmm, ACPI is in the log all over the

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 15:05, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 > > > > > > > > applied. I also have the 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 dmesg output ready, but > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 > > > > > > applied. I also have the 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 dmesg output ready, but there's > > > some > > > -mm-specific noise in it. Please let me know

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 10:07, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Second, noacpitimer added to the command line makes all of the kernels, > > > > up to > > > > and including 2.6.23-rc6-mm1, boot (this seems to be 100% reproducible). >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Second, noacpitimer added to the command line makes all of the kernels, > > > up to > > > and including 2.6.23-rc6-mm1, boot (this seems to be 100% reproducible). > > > > That's valuable information. Can you please provide a boot

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Second, noacpitimer added to the command line makes all of the kernels, up to and including 2.6.23-rc6-mm1, boot (this seems to be 100% reproducible). That's valuable information. Can you please provide a boot log of one of

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 10:07, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Second, noacpitimer added to the command line makes all of the kernels, up to and including 2.6.23-rc6-mm1, boot (this seems to be 100% reproducible). That's

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 applied. I also have the 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 dmesg output ready, but there's some -mm-specific noise in it. Please let me know if you want it,

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 15:05, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 applied. I also have the 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 dmesg output ready, but there's some

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 15:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: So I really wonder, why noacpitimer on the kernel command line makes any difference. I'm confused. \metoo Well, it was probably read as noacpi. :-) Hmm, ACPI is in the log all over the place. Well, noacpi

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 16:23, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 15:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: So I really wonder, why noacpitimer on the kernel command line makes any difference. I'm confused. \metoo Well, it was probably read as noacpi.

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:18 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Well, noacpi seems to be a synonym for pci=noacpi. Anyway, it causes acpi_disable_pci() to be executed, which according to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt means Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing or for PCI scanning

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 24 September 2007 18:46, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:18 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Well, noacpi seems to be a synonym for pci=noacpi. Anyway, it causes acpi_disable_pci() to be executed, which according to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 21:11 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: /me scratches head Retested. We know, that - disabling local apic timers work This works reproducibly accross the board. Ok - local apic timers (which turn off PIT) work. when noacpiFSCKEDPARSING This stopped working,

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 23 September 2007 21:59, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:08 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Since the boot fails very early, before any messages reach the (VGA) > > > > console, > > > > I have no idea what to do next, except for digging in the code. > > > > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:08 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Since the boot fails very early, before any messages reach the (VGA) > > > console, > > > I have no idea what to do next, except for digging in the code. > > > > Ok, lets track it down. Is there any difference when you add: > > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 23 September 2007 21:10, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > > Unfortunately, my observation that the patch series: > > > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 > > > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Unfortunately, my observation that the patch series: > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 > > worked with 2.6.23-rc4 was wrong. It _sometimes_ works, but usually

2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi Thomas, Unfortunately, my observation that the patch series: http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 worked with 2.6.23-rc4 was wrong. It _sometimes_ works, but usually doesn't boot, just like 2.6.23-rc4-mm1, 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 and everything in between

2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi Thomas, Unfortunately, my observation that the patch series: http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 worked with 2.6.23-rc4 was wrong. It _sometimes_ works, but usually doesn't boot, just like 2.6.23-rc4-mm1, 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 and everything in between

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi Thomas, Unfortunately, my observation that the patch series: http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 worked with 2.6.23-rc4 was wrong. It _sometimes_ works, but usually doesn't

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 23 September 2007 21:10, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:57 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi Thomas, Unfortunately, my observation that the patch series: http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc4/patch-2.6.23-rc4-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2 worked with

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:08 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Since the boot fails very early, before any messages reach the (VGA) console, I have no idea what to do next, except for digging in the code. Ok, lets track it down. Is there any difference when you add: nohz=off

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 23 September 2007 21:59, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:08 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Since the boot fails very early, before any messages reach the (VGA) console, I have no idea what to do next, except for digging in the code. Ok, lets track