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Re: [Xen-devel] dom0 is stalled until a keypress



On 09/05/2011 02:19 AM, Rafal Wojtczuk wrote:
> Hello,
> The following bizarre behaviour was observed on xen4.1+suse dom0 2.6.38, on
> an old Core Duo laptop; maybe someone can hint what is wrong.
> Dom0 boot stalls after an init.d script prints "Starting udev". Then nothing 
> seems to happen. I need to press any key to observe progress - I need to do 
> it tens of times for the boot to finish. After X starts fine, then there is 
> no need for keypressing anymore.
> A particularly disturbing fact is that qrexec_daemon parent, that basically
> does
> for (;;) { sleep(1); fprintf(stderr, "."); }
> does not print dots, until a keypress arrives. So something is very wrong
> with timers.
> Somehow similarly, pm-suspend sometimes hangs at some stage - after detaching
> power cord, machine enters S3 immediately.
> This is vaguely similar to the issue described in
>  https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/14/122
> but this time, "nohz=off" does not help.
>
> "cpufreq=dom0-kernel" cures the symptoms; but it is not a sideeffectless 
> solution. Any idea what is going on or how to debug it ?

Try booting with "idle=halt".

    J

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