The patch titled apic debug has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is apic-debug.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: apic debug From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Can you please apply the patch below and add "apic=verbose" to the commandline ? This should give use some hint. Watch out for "calibrating APIC timer ..." in the boot messages. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/apic.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/apic.c~apic-debug arch/i386/kernel/apic.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c~apic-debug +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c @@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ static int __init calibrate_APIC_clock(v lapic_clockevent.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0xF, &lapic_clockevent); - apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "..... tt1-tt2 %ld\n", tt1 - tt2); + apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "..... tt1: %ld tt2: %ld\n", tt1, tt2); apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "..... mult: %ld\n", lapic_clockevent.mult); apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "..... calibration result: %ld\n", result); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are gtod-exponential-update_wall_time.patch gtod-persistent-clock-support-core.patch gtod-persistent-clock-support-i386.patch time-uninline-jiffiesh.patch time-fix-msecs_to_jiffies-bug.patch time-fix-timeout-overflow.patch cleanup-uninline-irq_enter-and-move-it-into-a.patch dynticks-extend-next_timer_interrupt-to-use-a.patch hrtimers-namespace-and-enum-cleanup.patch hrtimers-clean-up-locking.patch hrtimers-state-tracking.patch hrtimers-clean-up-callback-tracking.patch hrtimers-move-and-add-documentation.patch clockevents-core.patch clockevents-drivers-for-i386.patch high-res-timers-core.patch gtod-mark-tsc-unusable-for-highres-timers.patch dynticks-core.patch dyntick-add-nohz-stats-to-proc-stat.patch dynticks-i386-arch-code.patch high-res-timers-dynticks-enable-i386-support.patch debugging-feature-timer-stats.patch apic-debug.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html