Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:32:04 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 |
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On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 02:19:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > So the range of 1-251 seconds is not entirely random. It's all in > > that "32-bit HPET range". > > DaveJ, I assume it's too late now, and you don't effectively have any > access to the machine any more, but "hpet=disable" or "nohpet" on the > command line might be worth trying if you ever see that piece of > hardware again.
I can give it a try tomorrow. I'm probably saying goodbye to that machine on Tuesday, so we'll have 24hrs of testing at least.
> And for posterity, do you have a dmidecode with motherboard/BIOS > information for the problematic machine? And your configuration?
I can grab that in the morning too.
> And finally, and stupidly, is there any chance that you have anything > accessing /dev/hpet?
Not knowingly at least, but who the hell knows what systemd has its fingers in these days.
Dave
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