Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Feb 23 2007 - 05:09:25 EST


> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:41:11 +0100 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 09:19 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > At this point the PIT / HPET _is_ active and incrementing jiffies. The
> > > switch to local apic timers happens afterwards.
> >
> > Could be the switch over then which confuses the NMI .
>
> Why? The switch just stops the PIT/HPET. It does not fiddle with IO_APIC
> and friends at all.
>
> > ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/dwalker/tglx/
>
> Nothing obvious. Bisect time :(
>

I already bisected this on my old pIII, which has the same problem:
clockevents-i386-drivers.patch
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