Re: Experiencing freezes with kernel 4.16.3 on a desktop with E5500 CPU (bisect included)

[Diego Viola]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 8:48 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:23:24AM -0300, Diego Viola wrote:
>> > That's a Core2 era chip; does it actually have stable TSC ?
>>
>> I'm not sure.
>
> dmesg | grep -i tsc
>
> should be able to tell you.

[diego@dualcore ~]$ dmesg | grep -i tsc
[    0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT
[    0.016666] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT
[    0.019999] tsc: Detected 2793.087 MHz processor
[    0.019999] clocksource: tsc-early: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff
max_cycles: 0x2842be30f1f, max_idle_ns: 440795236296 ns
[    0.162058] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc-early
[    0.300076] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle
[diego@dualcore ~]$