>-----Original Message----- >From: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte [mailto:snakebyte@xxxxxx] >Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:55 AM >To: Michal Piotrowski >Cc: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte; Len Brown; >linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; IDE/ATA development list; >Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz; linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ingo >Molnar; Thomas Gleixner; Pallipadi, Venkatesh >Subject: Re: Time Problems with 2.6.23-rc1-gf695baf2 > >* Michal Piotrowski (michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> Hi Eric, >> >> On 26/07/07, Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte <snakebyte@xxxxxx> wrote: >> > * Len Brown (lenb@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> > > > > > > [ 13.506890] ACPI Exception >(processor_throttling-0084): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _PTC [20070126] >> > > > > > > [ 13.507101] ACPI Exception >(processor_throttling-0147): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _TSS [20070126] >> > > >> > > Note that these are just noise -- new code being verbose >when looking for an optional feature. >> > > >> > > The fact that hitting the power button a bunch of times >> > > to make the system move along suggests some sort of >missing interrupt problem -- >> > > most likely the timer itself. >> > > >> > > [ 13.868574] Probing IDE interface ide0... >> > > [ 387.279576] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 370195339890 ns) >> > > >> > > 5-minutes -- a long probe:-) >> > > >> > > > CONFIG_NO_HZ=y >> > > >> > > does CONFIG_NO_HZ=n make a difference? >> > >> > [ 41.007654] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal >> > [ 322.133656] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 276476174785 ns) >> > Boot went fine but the system got pretty unresponsive >later, 2-3 seconds >> > delay after keypresses on an idle system and a hang during >shutdown which i had to resolve by >> > pressing the power button (not to switch it of the hard >way, but to keep it rebooting) >> > >> > > > CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y >> > > >> > > does CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n make a difference? >> > >> > doesnt change anything >> > >> > > does "irqpoll" make any difference? >> > > does "notsc" make any difference? >> > > does "idle=poll" make any difference? >> > >> > I tried these with the HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n, irqpoll and >notsc dont change >> > a thing, idle=poll makes it boot normally >> >> Please use git-bisect >> >> git-bisect start >> git-bisect bad >> git-bisect good 7dcca30a32aadb0520417521b0c44f42d09fe05c > > >took some time, but i got a scape goat, added venkatesh to the CC list, > Eric, This means things should work fine with processor.max_cstate=2 boot option as well. Can you please double check that. Also, please send in the acpidump from your system. Thanks, Venki - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
