Hi There is another bug: when you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING, parisc boot gets stuck with these messages. (but it is not caused by the patch 54b668009076caddbede8fde513ca2c982590bfe, because this bug happens even in kernel 4.6). Mikulas [ 0.000000] Memory: 7201556K/7337984K available (4096K kernel code, 1419K rwdata, 883K rodata, 176K init, 2296K bss, 136428K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) [ 0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout: [ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0x0000000000008000 - 0x000000003f000000 (1007 MB) [ 0.000000] memory : 0x0000000040000000 - 0x0000004140000000 (266240 MB) [ 0.000000] .init : 0x0000000040100000 - 0x000000004012c000 ( 176 kB) [ 0.000000] .data : 0x000000004052c000 - 0x000000004076bb60 (2302 kB) [ 0.000000] .text : 0x000000004012c000 - 0x000000004052c000 (4096 kB) [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=16, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=8 [ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation. [ 0.000000] Build-time adjustment of leaf fanout to 64. [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:80 [ 0.000000] clocksource: cr16: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x1cd42e4dffb, max_idle_ns: 881590591483 ns [ 0.133333] WARNING: timekeeping: Cycle offset (40) is larger than allowed by the 'jiffies' clock's max_cycles value (10): time overflow danger [ 0.133333] timekeeping: Your kernel is sick, but tries to cope by capping time updates [ 0.133333] Console: colour dummy device 160x64 [ 0.303333] WARNING: timekeeping: Cycle offset (51) is larger than allowed by the 'jiffies' clock's max_cycles value (10): time overflow danger [ 0.303333] timekeeping: Your kernel is sick, but tries to cope by capping time updates [ 0.423333] WARNING: timekeeping: Cycle offset (36) is larger than allowed by the 'jiffies' clock's max_cycles value (10): time overflow danger [ 0.423333] timekeeping: Your kernel is sick, but tries to cope by capping time updates [ 0.483333] WARNING: timekeeping: Cycle offset (18) is larger than allowed by the 'jiffies' clock's max_cycles value (10): time overflow danger [ 0.483333] timekeeping: Your kernel is sick, but tries to cope by capping time updates [ 0.653333] WARNING: timekeeping: Cycle offset (51) is larger than allowed by the 'jiffies' clock's max_cycles value (10): time overflow danger [ 0.653333] timekeeping: Your kernel is sick, but tries to cope by capping time updates [ 0.769999] WARNING: timekeeping: Cycle offset (35) is larger than allowed by the 'jiffies' clock's max_cycles value (10): time overflow danger [ 0.769999] timekeeping: Your kernel is sick, but tries to cope by capping time updates [ 0.943333] WARNING: timekeeping: Cycle offset (52) is larger than allowed by the 'jiffies' clock's max_cycles value (10): time overflow danger [ 0.943333] timekeeping: Your kernel is sick, but tries to cope by capping time updates On Wed, 1 Jun 2016, Helge Deller wrote: > * Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi > > > > With the kernel 4.7-rc1, I get corrupted printk times when the machine > > boots. The kernel is compiled with "Show timing information on printks" > > (CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME) enabled. There are no other negative effects. > > > > Bisecting shows that it is caused by the patch > > 54b668009076caddbede8fde513ca2c982590bfe ("parisc: Add native > > high-resolution sched_clock() implementation"). > > > > [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:80 > > [ 0.000000] clocksource: cr16: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x1cd42e4dffb, max_idle_ns: 881590591483 ns > > [ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 160x64 > > [ 90.122205] Calibrating delay loop... 1991.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=3317760) > > [ 90.224168] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 > > .... > > [ 92.235878] 13. Crestone Peak Core RS-232 at 0xfffffff0f05e2000 [18] { 10, 0x0, 0x076, 0x000ad } > > [ 92.708000] Releasing cpu 1 now, hpa=fffffffffe781000 > > [ 92.818803] FP[1] enabled: Rev 1 Model 20 > > [ 2.917508] Releasing cpu 2 now, hpa=fffffffffe798000 > > [ 0.196666] FP[2] enabled: Rev 1 Model 20 > > [ 3.116794] Releasing cpu 3 now, hpa=fffffffffe799000 > > [ 0.196666] FP[3] enabled: Rev 1 Model 20 > > [ 3.296942] CPU(s): 4 out of 4 PA8900 (Shortfin) at 1000.000000 MHz online > > [ 3.447762] Setting cache flush threshold to 65536 kB > > [ 3.450548] Setting TLB flush threshold to 1020 kB > > Please try attached patch. > > It fixes the problem mostly for me, there is just one little glitch > left, which is that the lines "FP[x] enabled" will still print an > invalid time. I assume it's because when this text is printed, the > clock/interrupts for the just booted CPU aren't enabled yet. > > I'm not sure it's worth trying to fix that. > One could print out that info at a later time, or just disabled it. > > Helge > > [ 5.720014] Enabling PDC_PAT chassis codes support v0.05 > [ 6.644542] Releasing cpu 1 now, hpa=fffffffffe781000 > [ 0.196000] FP[1] enabled: Rev 1 Model 20 > [ 7.088432] CPU(s): 2 out of 2 PA8800 (Mako) at 900.000000 MHz online > > ----------- > > [PATCH] parisc: Fix printk time during boot > > Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> > > diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c > index 58dd680..31ec99a 100644 > --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c > +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/time.c > @@ -309,11 +309,6 @@ void __init time_init(void) > clocks_calc_mult_shift(&cyc2ns_mul, &cyc2ns_shift, current_cr16_khz, > NSEC_PER_MSEC, 0); > > -#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT) > - /* At bootup only one 64bit CPU is online and cr16 is "stable" */ > - set_sched_clock_stable(); > -#endif > - > start_cpu_itimer(); /* get CPU 0 started */ > > /* register at clocksource framework */ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html