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Date:      Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:31:50 -0800
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Strange issue after early AP startup
Message-ID:  <3466870.vFI8cjabAc@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <b9c53237-4b1a-a140-f692-bf5837060b18@selasky.org>
References:  <b9c53237-4b1a-a140-f692-bf5837060b18@selasky.org>

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On Monday, January 16, 2017 04:51:42 PM Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When booting I observe an additional 30-second delay after this print:
> 
> > Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> 
> ~30 second delay and boot continues like normal.
> 
> Checking "vmstat -i" reveals that some timers have been running loose.
> 
> > cpu0:timer                         44300        442
> > cpu1:timer                         40561        404
> > cpu3:timer                      48462822     483058
> > cpu2:timer                      48477898     483209
> 
> Trying to add delays and/or prints around the Timecounters printout 
> makes the issue go away. Any ideas for debugging?

I have generally used KTR tracing to trace what is happening during
boot to debug EARLY_AP_STARTUP issues.

-- 
John Baldwin



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