Recent 6-beta issue: high delay when loading kernel on thinkpad on battery]

[Jon Door]

Martin Cracauer wrote:

>Jonathan Noack wrote on Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:49:40PM -0500: 
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>>On 08/30/05 12:06, Martin Cracauer wrote:
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>>>I cannot nail down when exactly this issue was introduced but I think
>>>it was recently.  I remember to boot this laptop fine when on battery
>>>during summer.
>>>
>>>Recent 6-betas make my thinkpad R40 wait for 80 seconds when loading
>>>the kernel (after announcing kernel version but before probing
>>>devices), when it is on battery power.  On A/C the delay is normal.
>>>
>>>This is a boot -v screenshot photo of the stage where it is hanging:
>>>http://wavehh.dyndns.org/tmp/thinkpad-6beta-delay.jpg
>>>
>>>As you can see, -v doesn't give a clue what it is doing.  It is
>>>hanging there doing nothing before reloading the kernel modules.
>>>
>>>dmesg, acpi stats, kernel config etc is all on:
>>>http://www.cons.org/cracauer/machines/grisu/
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>>>I just updated these files to be from a -v boot when on A/C.
>>>
>>>Any idea what this can be caused by? Any additional tests or info I
>>>can provide?
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>>I have seen similar boot delays on a Compaq DL360 (G1?) server I have. 
>>Also, I have a dual P3 machine that no longer reboots after a "shutdown 
>>-r now"; it just hangs after printing "Shutting down ACPI".  I think 
>>there may be some edge cases with ACPI but have no direct evidence. 
>>Here's my message:
>>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?430960DD.6040608
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>This is still the case with 6-beta of Monday.
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>Unless somebody has a better idea I will allocate some time to do a
>binary search of kernel version dates to track down which change
>caused this.  (I don't see any possible way to debug this, no tools
>available).
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>I rate my Thinkpad as severely hampered with this problem.  Waiting 80
>seconds for nothing while Linuxers are watching over my shoulder is
>more than I can take :-)
>
>Anybody else observing this?
>
>Martin
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Thinkpad T41, buildworld on sept. 12th. I don't seem to be getting any 
untoward delay when booting from battery, maybe a few extra seconds at 
the same spot you are seeing the hang, but that's hard to say as I 
didn't actually time it. Definitely nothing like the 80 you are getting. 
I am running a customized kernel, debugging removed, a handful of things 
added.
                     
                                                                                                     

I have noticed the same problem with "shutdown -r now" on both a 
Supermicro Motherboard Xeon server, and a Soekris Net4801, just 
yesterday. With those same systems I have been seeing some 
intermittently long boot delays. Both cases always when I wasn't 
connected to the serial console so I haven't actually been able to get a 
look at what the system was doing.

Jon