Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: Tree for June 13: IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325 | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:38:37 +0200 |
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On Tuesday, 17 of June 2008, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > May I gently ask that the patch ("x86: I/O APIC: timer through 8259A second-chance") > > be reverted? > > We're trying to find a solution for a long-standing problem and this > patch is a step in that direction. We need to find out exactly what is > going wrong with the HP nx6325 system and removing the patch would make us > lose the opportunity to get things right in this area. At the time I > submitted that patch I warned a lot of testing would be required before it > goes upstream and hopefully my request will get honored. If you do not > want to participate in testing for whatever reason, you have the right to > do so, but I insist on the patch to stay at least until we know the source > of the problem and conclude there is no other way to get it fixed. Len > reported he's got the same system and it behaves the same, so I hope he'll > be able to do the testing if you decide to opt out.
I can do the testing actually, but IMO putting that patch into linux-next was a mistake.
> Unfortunately the 64-bit variation has a lot of necessary logging > disabled by default (as you have now discovered with the need to rename > apic_printk() to printk()), so my plan is to cook up a patch to enable all > the available logging facilities around that code first.
Well, that's easy. I can send you a dmesg output with all of the printk()s in there functional if that helps, but frankly I don't see how this is going to get you more information than I've already posted.
Thanks, Rafael
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