On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 10:31, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 22:55, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 22:55 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > I have reworked the patch a bit so that it applies on top of 2.6.23-rc8-mm1
> > > > and compiles (my version is attached).
> > > >
> > > > With this patch applied, the kernel boots correctly on the nx6325.
> > >
> > > I know. It's basically enforced "noapictimer".
> > >
> > > But this still does not explain why your nasty box booted current
> > > mainline with "apicmaintimer" on the kernel command line.
> >
> > Now it doesn't do that any more.
> >
> > As I wrote in the other thread, I think that _sometimes_ the CPU
> > doesn't enter the C1E state (or how it's called) and then the box
> > boots and works.
>
> Can you see any correlation between being on AC or on battery and this
> bug occuring?
No. All tests were done with the AC power supply plugged in.
> Sometimes the BIOS might even do C states depending on
> whether the box was booted up on AC or on battery. (and sometimes the
> kernel calibrates things differently when booting up on battery [lower
> speed] - so this can have an effect too.)
On my box there are hidden history effects related to other things too (eg.
sometimes after a fresh boot the processor generates lots of ACPI events
such that it takes 25% of CPU power to handle them alone).
Greetings,
Rafael
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