On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:37:54PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > This commit seems to cause a boot hang on an old Athlon64 CPU: Are you sure that it's this commit, or is it possible that some other patch in tip might trigger the trouble? (Systems boots fine with this patch reverted?) > CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 > CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 > numa_add_cpu cpu 0 node 0: mask now 0 > ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table > ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0 > ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC > ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... > ..... (found apic 0 pin 0) ... > ....... works. > CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02 Can't reproduce this here (tried it on a couple of further systems). Can you please provide dmesg or at least /proc/cpuinfo output? (Also at the moment, it's not obvious to me how this timer interrupt trouble is related to this patch.) Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html