On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 12/14/2007 11:01 AM, Arun Thomas wrote:
> > On Dec 14, 2007 4:53 AM, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:10:31 -0500 "Arun Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
>
> some time before:
> [ 20.101392] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine..
> 5989.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=11978034)
>
> >>> [ 20.185881] Initializing CPU#1
> >>> [ 527.926587] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine..
> >>> 200566.59 BogoMIPS (lpj=401133185)
> >> Silly question: is that delay actually observeable by a human,
> >> or is it just a leap in the printk timestamping?
> >
> > Good question. Yes, it's human-observable. The kernel "hangs" for 8
> > mins by my wall clock, and then it continues to boot up.
>
> By the way, the same processor here, but
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5984.76 BogoMIPS (lpj=11969527)
> for the second core.
>
> The calibration is some kind of weird there.
>
> If any info needed from me, feel free to ask (x86_64 here). No problems with it
> here AFAIK.
The problem is caused by an SMI during the calibration routine. We
really need to come up with a solid solution which does not rely on
the periodic timer coming in, when there is something else (HPET,
pm_timer) available.
I have a look into this.
Arun, do you have an USB keyboard plugged in ? If not, can you connect
one and check, whether it changes things or not ?
Thanks,
tglx
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