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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 02:38:47PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> @@ -834,8 +857,12 @@ static int clocksource_unbind(struct clocksource *cs)
>  		if (curr_clocksource == cs)
>  			return -EBUSY;
>  	}
> +
> +	clocksource_watchdog_lock(&flags);
>  	clocksource_dequeue_watchdog(cs);
>  	list_del_init(&cs->list);
> +	clocksource_watchdog_lock(&flags);

It works a lot better when this is _unlock();

> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  

With that, and intel_idle.c modified to always issue the "halts in
idle" thing, my IVB comes up in hpet mode. Let me dig up a Core2 era
machine and see if that works too.