Re: [BUG] Linux 5.3-rc1: timer problem on x86-64 (Pentium D)

[Rui Salvaterra]

Hi again, Thomas,

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 07:28, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The only reason I can think of is that the HPET on that machine has a weird
> register state (it's not advertised by the BIOS ... )
>
> But that does not explain the boot failure completely. If the HPET is not
> available then the kernel should automatically do the right thing and fall
> back to something else.

This may be a useful data point, the relevant part of the dmesg on a
pristine 5.3-rc1 with clocksource=jiffies:

[    0.028964] clocksource: refined-jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff
max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.113537] clocksource: tsc-early: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff
max_cycles: 0x30e24b1e83d, max_idle_ns: 440795362670 ns
[    0.127048] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles:
0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.175604] clocksource: hpet: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles:
0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 133484882848 ns
[    0.185029] clocksource: acpi_pm: mask: 0xffffff max_cycles:
0xffffff, max_idle_ns: 2085701024 ns
[    1.123548] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU1: Marking
clocksource 'tsc-early' as unstable because the skew is too large:
[    1.123552] clocksource:                       'hpet' wd_now: 33
wd_last: 33 mask: ffffffff
[    1.123554] clocksource:                       'tsc-early' cs_now:
922361204 cs_last: 8bc8d8390 mask: ffffffffffffffff
[    1.123556] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog

available_clocksource: hpet acpi_pm refined-jiffies jiffies
current_clocksource: jiffies

> Can you please provide the output of:
>
>  cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
> and
>  cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
>
> from a successful boot with 5.2 and 5.3 head with the 'fix' applied?

Here we goâ

Linux 5.2:
available_clocksource: tsc hpet acpi_pm
current_clocksource: tsc

Linux 5.3-rc1 patched:
available_clocksource: tsc hpet acpi_pm
current_clocksource: tsc

> Then boot these kernels with 'hpet=disable' on the command line and see
> whether they come up. If so please provide the same output.

Fortunately (as I'm doing this remotely) they did come up.
With hpet=disabledâ

Linux 5.2:
available_clocksource: tsc acpi_pm
current_clocksource: tsc

Linux 5.3-rc1 patched:
available_clocksource: tsc acpi_pm
current_clocksource: tsc

> The dmesg output of each boot would be useful as well.

Attached is the dmesg output of each case.

Thanks,
Rui

Attachment: 5.3-rc1-patched-hpet-disable-dmesg.log
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Attachment: 5.2-dmesg.log
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