CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update

[Attilio Rao]

2010/4/6 Akephalos Akephalos <akephalos.akephalos at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> What architecture is it?
>> May you try setting machdep.lapic_allclocks to 1 in /boot/loader.conf?
>> May you report #dmesg | grep atrtc
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Attilio
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
>
> # dmesg | grep -B 5 -A 5 -i rtc
> acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
> acpi_button1: <Power Button> on acpi0
> acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
> battery0: <ACPI Control Method Battery> on acpi0
> acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
> atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
> ---
>
> I set machdep.lapic_allclocks to 1 at statup - top works now!! I can see
> both processors with top -P, btw, everything looks fine, although I get core
> dump for xfce4-taskmanager and can't test it (it's probably related to
> something else).
> ---
>
> I started powerd - it scales the frequencies correctly now.
>
> This seems to be the solution, is this a bug should I report or leave things
> like this?

Uhm, may you tell me which revision did you update to? May you update
to the latest now, recompile your kernel, remove the hint
machdep.lapic_allclocks and report if it works or not?

Thanks,
Attilio


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Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein