Re: Long timeout when booting >= 2.6.38

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu May 05 2011 - 04:26:26 EST


On Wed, 4 May 2011, john stultz wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:31 +0200, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> > In fact, switching to acpi_pm doesn't seem to work:
> >
> > $ dmesg | grep clock
> >
> > [ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.39-rc5-ch-broken+
> > root=/dev/mapper/vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 clocksource=acpi_pm
> > [ 0.000000] Kernel command line:
> > BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.39-rc5-ch-broken+ root=/dev/mapper/vg-root ro
> > quiet splash vt.handoff=7 clocksource=acpi_pm
> > [ 0.000000] hpet clockevent registered
> > [ 1.413835] Switching to clocksource hpet
> > [ 1.420762] Override clocksource acpi_pm is not HRT compatible.
> > Cannot switch while in HRT/NOHZ mode
> > [ 147.940143] Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2809.409 MHz.
> > [ 147.940147] Switching to clocksource tsc
>
> So I think I've sorted this out.
>
> The watchdog code is what enables CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES, but we
> actually end up selecting the clocksource before we enqueue it into the
> watchdog list, so that's why we see the warning.
>
> I suspect the following will resolve this detail.

It does. Good catch!

> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> index 6519cf6..0e17c10 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> @@ -685,8 +685,8 @@ int __clocksource_register_scale(struct clocksource *cs, u32 scale, u32 freq)
> /* Add clocksource to the clcoksource list */
> mutex_lock(&clocksource_mutex);
> clocksource_enqueue(cs);
> - clocksource_select();
> clocksource_enqueue_watchdog(cs);
> + clocksource_select();
> mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex);
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -706,8 +706,8 @@ int clocksource_register(struct clocksource *cs)
>
> mutex_lock(&clocksource_mutex);
> clocksource_enqueue(cs);
> - clocksource_select();
> clocksource_enqueue_watchdog(cs);
> + clocksource_select();
> mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex);
> return 0;
> }
>
>
>
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