Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: > > Added Venki to CC > >>> I'm now testing crash on 32bit, but there is an issue before >>> applying the patches. My machine stopped at checking 'hlt' >>> after kexec, showing below message. >>> >>> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.80GHz stepping 0a >>> Checking 'hlt' instruction... >>> >> v2.6.23.1 works fine for 1st kernel. >>> I'm investigating it.. >> I found that the following patch makes my machine stopped. >> bfe0c1cc6456bba1f4e3cc1fe29c0ea578ac763a >> x86: HPET force enable for ICH5 >> >> It means that after applied this patch, HPET is enabled >> automatically on 1st kernel and after crash/kexec the 2nd >> kernel stopped at checking 'hlt'. >> >> I also tested the latest kernel(2.6.24-rc1-gec3b67c1). >> Boot parameter "nohpet" resolves this issue and kdump >> works well on 32bit. >> So I guess HPET affects this. >> But I don't know why 64bit kernel with HPET is OK. > > Hmm. Does the 64 bit code shutdown HPET and restore the IRQ routing to > PIT and 32 bit is missing this ? Sorry, I'm not sure how I can get these informations. Can you please tell me what I should do? I'll continue to dig the issue. I also have the following message. ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter It appeared only on 64bit and the 2nd kernel without boot parameter noapic. Thanks Hiroshi Shimamoto