Re: first bisection results in -mm3 [was: Re: 2.6.15-mm2: reiser3 oops on suspend and more (bonus oops shot!)]

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 23:08 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> [cleaned up some Cc as this is not interesting to all MLs]
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> first bisection spotted the cause of the stalls at boot (happening while
> starting portmap and after usb-storage scan):
> 
> time-clocksource-infrastructure.patch
> time-generic-timekeeping-infrastructure.patch
> time-i386-conversion-part-1-move-timer_pitc-to-i8253c.patch
> time-i386-conversion-part-2-rework-tsc-support.patch
> time-i386-conversion-part-3-enable-generic-timekeeping.patch
> time-i386-conversion-part-4-remove-old-timer_opts-code.patch
> time-i386-conversion-part-5-acpi-pm-variable-renaming-and-config-change.patch
> time-i386-clocksource-drivers.patch
> time-fix-cpu-frequency-detection.patch
> 
> Cc-ed john stultz
> 
> actually git bisect[1] pointed to time-fix-cpu-frequency-detection.patch
> but it's clearly wrong. Reverting all the above patches (I suppose they
> are somewhat related) fixes the stalls I experience. I can test
> corrections if necessary.

Hmmm. I'm not quite understanding. Does reverting just
time-fix-cpu-frequency-detection.patch change anything? I just sent out
a fix for an error case that patch, but I doubt you'd be hitting it.

Looking at the log here:
http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/boot-2.6.15-mm2.3

I'm curious if you're getting cpufreq effects during interval while the
TSC is being used as a clocksource before we switch to using the acpi_pm
clocksource.

After the system boots up, does it keep accurate time? Time doesn't
obviously move too fast or to slow compared to a watch?

Few things to try (independently):
1. Does booting w/ idle=poll change the behavior?
2. Does booting w/ clocksource=jiffies change the behavior?
3. After booting up, run: 
   echo tsc > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
   And check that the system keeps accurate time.


Thanks for the great testing and feedback!
-john