Re: Timer panic on boot (r209434)

Doug Barton wrote:
> On 06/22/10 13:10, Alexander Motin wrote:
>> Doug Barton wrote:
>>> On 06/22/10 12:55, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> I tried upgrading from r209351 to r209434 and got a panic related
>>>> to the timer stuff while booting. You can see the panic and the
>>>> backtrace here:
>>>>
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/timer-panic-1.jpg 
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/timer-panic-2.jpg 
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/timer-panic-3.jpg
>>> Hmmm, that could use a little more detail. :)  I have a Dell laptop
>>> with a core 2 duo processor, running 9-current SMP i386.
>> Your ACPI seems reports that attimer uses IRQ2, instead of usual
>> IRQ0. It is either a bug, or it is a very rare feature.
>>
>> I am not sure it is not a hack, but you may try attached patch.
> 
> Ok, I updated to r209441, then applied your patch. FYI, I applied it in
> src/sys/x86/isa/ using -p2. This allowed me to boot, verbose dmesg is at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/dmesg-verbose-norid-patch.txt
> 
>> If it helps, it would be nice it you tried to use i8254 event timer,
>> to check is this a bug or feature.
> 
> Ok, I'm willing to give that a try if you tell me how. :)

Run `sysctl kern.eventtimer.timer2=i8254`, then after few seconds check
messages to see if system liked this timer (it should fall back
automatically if it's not), then check 'vmstat -ia' to see whether irq0
interrupts are arriving, then run 'systat -vm 1' to be absolutely sure.
If `vmstat -ia` won't show irq0 interrupts, try to figure out what else
can arrive instead of it.

-- 
Alexander Motin