On 16.08.2011 00:13, Joe Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Alexander Motin<mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 15.08.2011 23:57, Joe Schaefer wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Alexander Motin<mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 15.08.2011 22:18, Joe Schaefer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Joe Schaefer<joesuf4 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Andriy Gapon<avg at 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