On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:09:41 -0500
Richard Harman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Right now, with your patch and the 'noirqdebug' option or disabling
> nohz the system appears to be stable. This laptop otherwise locks up
> trying to configure apic/lapic, or locks up solid later with NO
> oops/bug and nothing will bring it out of it (eg, sysrq has no
> effect). NMI watchdog was also inoperable, which I believe was due
> to the apic/lapic being disabled.
>
> With your patch, the lapic is used:
>
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
The kernel should display these messages even without my patch.
> These kernel dmesg logs are hand-transcribed, and are from 2.6.22.5,
> but this shows where the kernel would lock up good and solid:
>
> http://www.richardharman.com/pavilion/2.6.22.5/dmesg.txt
I doubt it is my patch that makes your laptop work. C1E detection was
added by the following commit:
$ git-describe fb79d22e1d4b06385796cc0db0084a2e07beccee
v2.6.23-2294-gfb79d22
Try building a 2.6.24-rc6 without my patch and see if it still works
(apply it again in reverse mode, for example). I guess it will work,
because the kernel shouldn't use the LAPIC as a timer at all (except as
a dummy one), with or without dynticks support.
When I started investigating the "nohz is not working problem", I
stumbled across a few threads on LKML where a few people had
similar problems with their laptops and they where instructed to pass
"nolapic" or something similar as a boot parameter to the kernel. I
guess the problem disappeared after the commit I mentioned previously,
since such reports weren't that recent. IIRC, that was on kernels
previous to 2.6.24-*, where x86 and x86-64 weren't unified and there
were no dynticks on the latter.
To be more clear, my patch disables C1E instead of disabling the
LAPIC, as these two don't agree with each other.
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