2.6.22 rebase.

[dragoran]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:56:41AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>  > Hi.
>  > 
>  > On Thursday 12 July 2007 02:25:45 Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:45:13AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>  > >  > On 07/11/2007 01:23 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > >  > >  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247346
>  > >  > >  > 
>  > >  > >  > Problems start to appear when the hpet stuff for x86_64 went it, and 
>  > did
>  > >  > >  > not vanish when you disabled the forced-hpet for some of the recent
>  > >  > >  > ICH's from Intel (which afaics [would need the lspci data to be 
>  > sure]
>  > >  > >  > are in both our machines).
>  > >  > >  > 
>  > >  > >  > /me will later update the bug with the lspci output when I'm in 
>  > front of
>  > >  > >  > my laptop again.
>  > >  > > 
>  > >  > > Yeah, I'm picking over that bug now.  Will try and find a box I can
>  > >  > > reproduce this on tomorrow.
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > The Fedora 6 kernel doesn't boot either, at least on a Dell Workstation
>  > >  > 490, without "nohpet".
>  > > 
>  > > Lets just drop the 64bit tickless stuff for now, it clearly isn't baked,
>  > > and isn't going to get much better by the end of the week (which I want
>  > > to get something into updates-testing by).
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Do you (or does anyone else) know if Thomas is aware of these issues? I 
>  > haven't noticed anything on LKML.
>
> I've been talking with him.  The hpet related stuff is on hold though
> until Venki gets back from vacation.
> 	
tglx fixed the nohpet bug see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247346

So can we merge back hrtimers + this patch and give it another try?