From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932225AbWG2Twk (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:52:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932226AbWG2Twj (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:52:39 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:20423 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932225AbWG2Twj (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:52:39 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Paul Fulghum Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work References: <20060727015639.9c89db57.akpm@osdl.org> <1154112276.3530.3.camel@amdx2.microgate.com> <20060728144854.44c4f557.akpm@osdl.org> <20060728233851.GA35643@muc.de> <1154187239.3404.2.camel@amdx2.microgate.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:50:46 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1154187239.3404.2.camel@amdx2.microgate.com> (Paul Fulghum's message of "Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:33:59 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Fulghum writes: > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 01:38 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> It's remove-timer-fallback likely. I was working on that already. >> >> Some boards go into the timer fallback path since 2.6.17/64bit for so >> far unknown reasons and that doesn't work anymore because I removed the >> fallback path. > > remove-timer-fallback did not reverse cleanly against 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 > > I tried to patch it up and got it to compile without > errors or warnings. The result was a hard freeze early in > the boot, so I suspect more is necessary to restore that > function. Any chance you can post the your reversed version of remove-timer-fallback so we can have a clue about what happened. Eric