On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:34 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It prints twice 'System halted' and blinks the keyboard leds, but does > > not switch off. On all other kernel version I only see one keyboard > > blink before the power goes out. > > ok... > > > I compared its dmesg to vanilla-rc7 and -rc4-mm1, but expect that rc-4 > > assigns different IRQs I can't see any differences except the normal > > variation in BogoMips etc.
Can your check whether 2.6.23-rc7 + http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc7/patch-2.6.23-rc7-hrt1.patch works for you ? > hm, dunno. The only substantial patch which touches > arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c (which is where cpu_idle lives) is > x86_64-prep-idle-loop-for-dynticks.patch. > > The problem is, 2.6.23-rc6-mm1's git-acpi patch had all the new cpuidle > code in it. Len dropped all that code over the weekend (which is when I > picked this copy of his tree), so 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 doesn't have the cpuidle > code. Len will be reapplying the cpuidle patches today(ish) so next -mm > _will_ have the cpuidle code. > > So what we have in rc7-mm1 is this transient no-cpuidle state. It could be > that the x86_64 dynticks code (which was developed previously tested in > conjunction with the cpuidle patches) has some dependency on cpuidle. It should not. cpuidle makes use of dynticks not the other way round. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
