Re: PROBLEM: Can't boot a (HZ = 1000) kernel using an AMD Phenom-II processor

[Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>]

Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Borislav Petkov wrote:

>> maybe I wasn't clear enough - I meant to boot a _1000HZ_ kernel not a
>> 250HZ one with highres timers disabled, if the line above is correct.
>> Can you try the same thing as above again, please, but this time use a
>> 1000HZ 32bit kernel.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
> 
> Sorry, hows this?
> BIOS EBDA/lowmem at: 0009f000/0009f000
> Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
> Linux version 2.6.28.3-1000Hz (root@harley) (gcc version 4.3.1 20080507
> (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) ) #3 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb9
> KERNEL supported cpus:
>   Intel GenuineIntel
>   AMD AuthenticAMD
>   NSC Geode by NSC
>   Cyrix CyrixInstead
>   Centaur CentaurHauls
>   Transmeta GenuineTMx86
>   Transmeta TransmetaCPU
>   UMC UMC UMC UMC
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bffe0000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000bffe0000 - 00000000bffe3000 (ACPI NVS)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000bffe3000 - 00000000bfff0000 (ACPI data)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000bfff0000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable)
> DMI 2.5 present.
> Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working it around.
> last_pfn = 0xbffe0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
> x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
> RAMDISK: 375a8000 - 37fef376
> Allocated new RAMDISK: 004a7000 - 00eee376
> Move RAMDISK from 00000000375a8000 - 0000000037fef375 to 004a7000 - 00eee375
> ACPI: RSDP 000F7FB0, 0024 (r2 RX780 )
> ACPI: XSDT BFFE3080, 0044 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
> ACPI: FACP BFFE8C80, 00F4 (r3 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
> FADT: X_PM1a_EVT_BLK.bit_width (8) does not match PM1_EVT_LEN (4)
> ACPI: DSDT BFFE3200, 5A71 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI     1000 MSFT  100000E)
> ACPI: FACS BFFE0000, 0040
> ACPI: HPET BFFE8E40, 0038 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD       98)
> ACPI: MCFG BFFE8E80, 003C (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
> ACPI: APIC BFFE8D80, 0084 (r1 RX780  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
> 2183MB HIGHMEM available.
> 887MB LOWMEM available.
>   mapped low ram: 0 - 377fe000
>   low ram: 00000000 - 377fe000
>   bootmap 00012000 - 00018f00
> (9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 00377fe000]
>   #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000]   BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
>   #1 [0000001000 - 0000002000]    EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
>   #2 [0000006000 - 0000007000]       TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
>   #3 [0000100000 - 00004a3c54]    TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 00004a3c54]
>   #4 [00004a4000 - 00004a7000]    INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [00004a4000 - 00004a7000]
>   #5 [000009f000 - 0000100000]    BIOS reserved ==> [000009f000 - 0000100000]
>   #6 [0000010000 - 0000012000]          PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000012000]
>   #7 [00004a7000 - 0000eee376]      NEW RAMDISK ==> [00004a7000 - 0000eee376]
>   #8 [0000012000 - 0000019000]          BOOTMAP ==> [0000012000 - 0000019000]
> Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes.
> Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes.
> Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes.
> found SMP MP-table at [c00f3f00] 000f3f00
> Zone PFN ranges:
>   DMA      0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
>   Normal   0x00001000 -> 0x000377fe
>   HighMem  0x000377fe -> 0x000bffe0
> Movable zone start PFN for each node
> early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
>     0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009f
>     0: 0x00000100 -> 0x000bffe0
> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
> Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
> ACPI: HPET id: 0x10b9a201 base: 0xfed00000
> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
> mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
> mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
> Allocating PCI resources starting at c2000000 (gap: c0000000:20000000)
> PERCPU: Allocating 36864 bytes of per cpu data
> Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 780143
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda5 hwprobe=-modules.pata apm=off selinux=0
> noresume splash=silent apic=debug console=ttyS0,19200n8 vga=normal
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Initializing CPU#0
> Preemptible RCU implementation.
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
> Fast TSC calibration using PIT
> Detected 3359.811 MHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> console [ttyS0] enabled
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Memory: 3104320k/3145600k available (1835k kernel code, 39920k reserved, 1099k
> data, 276k init, 2236296k highmem)
> virtual kernel memory layout:
>     fixmap  : 0xffe19000 - 0xfffff000   (1944 kB)
>     pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
>     vmalloc : 0xf7ffe000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 120 MB)
>     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf77fe000   ( 887 MB)
>       .init : 0xc03e3000 - 0xc0428000   ( 276 kB)
>       .data : 0xc02caf57 - 0xc03ddc4c   (1099 kB)
>       .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02caf57   (1835 kB)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
> SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
> HPE
> 

I guess this didn't help much? Anything else I can do, let me know.

Regards
Mark