From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc2 soft lockups: ACPI? clock source problem? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:35:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <1240335038.11194.11.camel@nimitz> <20090422204557.10c3cc37.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1240511508.10627.159.camel@nimitz> <1240513827.7224.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1240514679.10627.168.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.5]:43869 "EHLO vms173005pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753153AbZDWTfO (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:35:14 -0400 In-reply-to: <1240514679.10627.168.camel@nimitz> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Hansen Cc: john stultz , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , linux-acpi On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 12:10 -0700, john stultz wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:31 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 20:45 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > (Is jstultz@us.ibm.com correct?) > > > > > > Only I want it to go to the black hole which is Lotus Notes. :) > > > > > > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:30:38 -0700 Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > > This was during my first boot of 2.6.30-rc2. > > > > > > > > Did it ever happen again? > > > > > > I've seen it on three different boots, but the stack traces were a bit > > > different each time. So, I assume it is a true timekeeping thing > > > instead of something *actually* locking up. > > > > > > > I assume this is a post-2.6.29 regression? (Yet another. We've been > > > > extra bad this time) > > > > > > This laptop has been quite good to me and I haven't rebooted since the > > > late 2.6.28 days. It isn't anything special, though. Just a Lenovo > > > T61. I wonder if my .config is a bit different. > > > > I've got a T61 at home, so I'll try to test it out. Dave, can you send > > me your .config? Also any chance you can bisect this down a tiny bit? > > http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/config-forjohn-04-23-2009 ugh, my 64-bit T61 will not like this 32-bit config:-( > I'll work on bisecting it down in a bit. start by trying the various clocksource= cmdline options. also, as -rc3 is out, please verify that still fails before bisecting -rc2 thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center