Re: [PATCH] x86-64 highres/dyntick support 2.6.22-rc1-v5

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu May 17 2007 - 15:19:43 EST


On Thu, 17 May 2007, Frank Sorenson wrote:

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> Frank Sorenson wrote:
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> > Hrm. Looks like it gets past the hpet_is_known There's still something
> > in the hpet detection code, but I didn't get to the bottom of it yet.
> > I'll do some more debugging to track down where it's really hanging.
> > Sorry for the noise.
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> I've tracked down this hang to a kzalloc in the hpet code that never
> returns. But only when using SLUB. Using SLAB, the highres/dyntick
> patch boots without problem.
>
> ...adding Christoph to the CC list...

Please boot with slub_debug.

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