Re: Long timeout when booting >= 2.6.38

From: john stultz
Date: Wed May 04 2011 - 21:17:21 EST


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.

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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