On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:00:24 +0100 Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > > Dear RT folks! > > > > I'm pleased to announce the v3.12.6-rt9 patch set. > > > > Changes since v3.12.6-rt8 > <snip> > > - A patch from Thomas Gleixner not to raise the timer softirq > > unconditionally (only if a timer is pending) > > > > This one seems to deadlock early in the boot sequence on x86 > (i3/i7/Phenom-4x here and Carsten Emde also had boot failures) This patch seems to frequently make the kernel hang hard early in the boot process on my i7-2600k too. Reverting timers-do-not-raise-softirq-unconditionally.patch appears to fix the problem. -- Joakim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html