Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

[Pavel Machek]

> On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 12:19 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Ok, so it gets weirder. I have now machine in "hung" state; other
> > > consoles still work, but there are no timers -  sleep 1 hangs forever.
> > > 
> > > sysrq-t shows kstopmachine hung in hrtimer_try_to_cancel.
> > > 
> > > So I indeed suspect difference-in-kconfig to trigger this, and will
> > > try disabling noidlehz.
> > 
> > I would unset CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS for starters.
> > 
> > Well, I guess Thomas should know about that. ;-)
> 
> What was the last known to work version ?

I'm afraid I only turned on HIGH_RES_TIMERS in 2.6.23-rc1
timeframe... so I'm not sure if it ever worked for me.

I can confirm it is working in 2.6.23-rc5 with highres disabled, and
broken with highres enabled. NOHZ turns "waits for keypress during
unplug/replug" into "just plain hangs".
									Pavel
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