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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:17:39 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Timer panic on boot (r209434)
Message-ID:  <4C212873.5010807@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C212460.1070200@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4C211538.1040808@FreeBSD.org> <4C2115D2.5080504@FreeBSD.org> <4C2118D1.3080903@FreeBSD.org> <4C212460.1070200@FreeBSD.org>

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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



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