On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:04:51PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 00:44 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > This creates a clockevent for the PowerPC decrementer and registers it
> > with the generic clock/timer system, and implements the dynamic ticks
> > (no idle HZ) option for PowerPC.
>
> I tried both patches applied and with/without CONFIG_NOHZ but my quad G5
> won't boot. Anybody else have more luck?
Did you try with the two changes I suggested? Patch below.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index 1353d73..c863b07 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -554,6 +554,7 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * regs)
u64 tb_next_jiffy;
struct clock_event_device *evt = &per_cpu(decrementers, cpu);
+ set_dec(DECREMENTER_MAX);
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
if (atomic_read(&ppc_n_lost_interrupts) != 0)
do_IRQ(regs);
@@ -931,8 +932,6 @@ void __init time_init(void)
/* Register the clocksource */
clocksource_init();
-
- set_dec(DECREMENTER_MAX);
}
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