On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
quoted text
> Hi,
> 
> I have been seeing these since I installed .24 kernels.  It does not seem to matter if I change the clocksource from tsc
> to apci_pm.  Its happened with all .24 kernels I have tried starting with stock 2.6.24 upto 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 + 2.6.24-3
> 
> Ideas?

Questions first. Is there a particular reason to use idle=poll ?

Idea: does the patch below help ?

Thanks,
	tglx

---

 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.24/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24.orig/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ linux-2.6.24/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -212,14 +212,13 @@ void cpu_idle (void)
 	current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING;
 	/* endless idle loop with no priority at all */
 	while (1) {
+		tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick();
 		while (!need_resched()) {
 			void (*idle)(void);
 
 			if (__get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state))
 				__get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state) = 0;
 
-			tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick();
-
 			rmb();
 			idle = pm_idle;
 			if (!idle)
--
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