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Date:      Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:23:09 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joe Schaefer <joesuf4@gmail.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clock stalls on Sabertooth 990FX
Message-ID:  <4E498E3D.7050100@FreeBSD.org>
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On 16.08.2011 00:13, Joe Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Alexander Motin<mav@freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> On 15.08.2011 23:57, Joe Schaefer wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Alexander Motin<mav@freebsd.org>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 15.08.2011 22:18, Joe Schaefer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Joe Schaefer<joesuf4@gmail.com>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Andriy Gapon<avg@freebsd.org>
>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> on 13/08/2011 20:16 Joe Schaefer said the following:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Brand new machine with a Phenom II X6 1100T and under chronic load
>>>>>>>> the clock will stop running periodically until the machine eventually
>>>>>>>> completely
>>>>>>>> freezes.  Note: during these stalls the kernel is still running, the
>>>>>>>> machine is still
>>>>>>>> mostly responsive, it's just that the clock is frozen in time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've disabled Turbo mode in the bios and toyed with just about every
>>>>>>>> other setting but nothing seems to resolve this problem.  Based on
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> behavior
>>>>>>>> of the machine (just making buildworld will eventually kill it,
>>>>>>>> upping
>>>>>>>> the -j flag
>>>>>>>> just kills it faster), I'm guessing it has something to do with the
>>>>>>>> Digi+ VRM features
>>>>>>>> but again nothing I've tried modifying in the bios seems to help.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've tried both 8.2-RELEASE and FreeBSD 9 (head).  Running head now
>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>> a dtrace enabled kernel.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Suggestions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On head, start with checking what source is used for driving clocks:
>>>>>>> sysctl kern.eventtimer
>>>>>>
>>>>>> % sysctl kern.eventtimer                                  [master]
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.choice: HPET(450) HPET1(450) HPET2(450) LAPIC(400)
>>>>>> i8254(100) RTC(0)
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 15
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 0
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 400
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET.flags: 3
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET.frequency: 14318180
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET.quality: 450
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET1.flags: 3
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET1.frequency: 14318180
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET1.quality: 450
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET2.flags: 3
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET2.frequency: 14318180
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.HPET2.quality: 450
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
>>>>>> kern.eventtimer.timer: HPET
>>>>>
>>>>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>> Changing this to "i8254" seems to have resolved the stalls.
>>>>> I'm running buildworld -j12 without issue.  More than willing
>>>>> to test out a patch or two against head if anyone's still
>>>>> interested, otherwise I've thrown the change into loader.conf
>>>>> and will move along quietly.
>>>>
>>>> 8.2-RELEASE you've mentioned doesn't have event timers subsystem and HPET
>>>> timer driver. That makes me think it is strange at least. Can you try
>>>> also
>>>> LAPIC timer and do alike experiments with kern.timeocunter?
>>>
>>> My problems with 8.2-RELEASE may have been network based.  I don't recall
>>> precisely if the clock was stalling there, my guess is no based on
>>> what you wrote.
>>>
>>> I'll test LAPIC next ... so far so good.  Just so I'm clear, you'd
>>> like me to tweak
>>> kern.timecounter.hardware as well?  (Currently it's HPET).
>>
>> Yes. Instead. Ticking clock depends on both timecounter and eventtimer.
>
> Haven't found a combination that hangs my machine other than with the
> eventtimer at HPET.

I mean trying eventtimer HPET and different timecounters.

If changing timecounter won't help, try please this patch:

--- acpi_hpet.c.prev    2010-12-25 11:28:45.000000000 +0200
+++ acpi_hpet.c 2011-05-11 14:30:59.000000000 +0300
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ restart:
                 bus_write_4(sc->mem_res, HPET_TIMER_COMPARATOR(t->num),
                     t->next);
         }
-       if (fdiv < 5000) {
+       if (1 || fdiv < 5000) {
                 bus_read_4(sc->mem_res, HPET_TIMER_COMPARATOR(t->num));
                 now = bus_read_4(sc->mem_res, HPET_MAIN_COUNTER);

-- 
Alexander Motin



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