From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 - detects buggy TSC on GEODE
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:07:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060407170706.1ae11ea1.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4436D275.2010402@gmail.com>
Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> FYI,
>
> as the 2 syslog extracts show;
> 1. the new kernel is now detecting the buggy TSC on the GEODE-sc1100
> 2. the bug is apparently correctable by passing 'idle=poll' on kernel
> boot-line.
>
> Heres one vendor's bug/erratta description:
> http://soekris.com/Issue0003.htm
>
>
> Apr 7 11:42:01 truck kernel: [ 19.160016] Kernel command line:
> console=ttyS0,115200n81 root=/dev/nfs
> nfsroot=192.168.42.1:/nfshost/soekris
> nfsaddrs=192.168.42.100:192.168.42.1:192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0
> panic=5 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.17-rc1-mm1-sk
> Apr 7 11:42:01 truck kernel: [ 24.314851] Time: tsc clocksource has
> been installed.
> Apr 7 11:42:01 truck kernel: [ 29.977802] TSC appears to be running
> slowly. Marking it as unstable
> Apr 7 11:42:01 truck kernel: [ 20.460000] Time: pit clocksource has
> been installed.
>
>
> Apr 7 12:35:56 truck kernel: [ 21.562573] Kernel command line:
> console=ttyS0,115200n81 root=/dev/nfs
> nfsroot=192.168.42.1:/nfshost/soekris
> nfsaddrs=192.168.42.100:192.168.42.1:192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0
> panic=5 idle=poll BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.17-rc1-mm1-sk
> Apr 7 12:35:56 truck kernel: [ 21.563049] using polling idle threads.
> Apr 7 12:35:56 truck kernel: [ 28.393469] Time: tsc clocksource has
> been installed.
>
>
> Its nice to see the buggy TSC detector detect, and the work-around work.
hm.
John, does this mean that enable-tsc-for-amd-geode-gx-lx.patch is only safe
to merge after all your time-management patches have gone in?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-08 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-04 8:45 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-04-04 14:31 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Kumar Gala
2006-04-04 16:02 ` 2.6.17-mm1: drivers/w1/: patch undoes reasonable cleanups Adrian Bunk
2006-04-04 16:35 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-04-04 16:29 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1: KEXEC became SMP-only Adrian Bunk
2006-04-04 17:22 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-04-04 17:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-06 22:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-04 17:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-04 17:51 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-04-04 18:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-04 19:23 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-04-04 19:38 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-04-04 20:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-04 22:02 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-04-04 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-04 22:34 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-04-04 22:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-05 0:21 ` Martin Bligh
2006-04-05 2:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-04 16:29 ` [-mm patch] i386: pre_intr_init_hook optimization Adrian Bunk
2006-04-04 17:16 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-04-04 16:29 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1: why did acpi_ns_build_external_path() become global? Adrian Bunk
2006-04-04 16:30 ` [-mm patch] drivers/media/video/bt866.c: small fixes Adrian Bunk
2006-04-04 18:32 ` Martin Samuelsson
2006-04-05 7:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-05 9:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-05 13:44 ` Martin Samuelsson
2006-04-05 8:32 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-04-05 13:54 ` Martin Samuelsson
2006-04-04 16:30 ` [-mm patch] fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c: make a struct static Adrian Bunk
2006-04-04 16:50 ` [NFS] " J. Bruce Fields
2006-04-04 17:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-04 20:53 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1: mlockall() regression on x86_64 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-04-04 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-04 21:53 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Zan Lynx
2006-04-04 22:09 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-04-05 7:01 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Roger Luethi
2006-04-05 7:29 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-04-05 22:01 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Roger Luethi
2006-04-04 23:38 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Luck, Tony
2006-04-05 2:05 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Zou Nan hai
2006-04-05 16:15 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Bjorn Helgaas
2006-04-05 21:17 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Luck, Tony
2006-04-05 21:37 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-04-05 21:39 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Andreas Schwab
2006-04-05 22:01 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Bjorn Helgaas
2006-04-06 1:49 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Antonino A. Daplas
2006-04-06 10:21 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Russell King
2006-04-06 10:34 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Russell King
2006-04-06 14:55 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Bjorn Helgaas
2006-04-06 10:16 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Russell King
2006-04-05 2:27 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1, nfsd/reiser4 BUG Zan Lynx
2006-04-07 12:27 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1: drivers/acpi/numa.c compile error Adrian Bunk
2006-04-07 20:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-09 15:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-09 15:57 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-04-07 20:58 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 - detects buggy TSC on GEODE Jim Cromie
2006-04-08 0:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-04-08 0:25 ` john stultz
2006-04-08 1:15 ` Jim Cromie
2006-04-13 7:39 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Heiko Carstens
2006-04-13 8:13 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2006-04-14 16:07 ` 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 Alasdair G Kergon
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