Hi, After installing the new daily kernel, the same message showed up. The previous week, there was no message. But looking at the output here, is that the same was happening all the time, tsc gave just no message at boot-time about it.
EeePc-Rob-SFN9:~ # cat /var/log/messages | grep TSC Nov 7 19:35:14 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 7 19:35:14 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 7 19:48:18 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 7 19:48:18 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 7 19:52:39 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 7 19:52:39 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 7 20:53:25 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 7 20:53:25 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 7 21:02:50 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 7 21:02:50 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 7 21:18:33 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed Nov 7 21:18:33 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 7 21:21:35 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed Nov 7 21:21:35 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 7 21:25:34 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 7 21:25:34 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 7 21:37:07 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed Nov 7 21:37:07 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 8 22:47:11 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 8 22:47:11 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 9 07:48:36 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 9 07:48:36 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 10 10:42:19 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 10 10:42:19 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 10 11:35:24 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed Nov 10 11:35:24 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 11 11:20:53 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed Nov 11 11:20:53 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 11 11:24:40 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed Nov 11 11:24:40 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 11 15:38:52 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 11 15:38:52 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 11 20:45:27 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed Nov 11 20:45:27 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Replacing the kernel by the default 3.4 Nov 11 20:55:05 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 11 20:55:05 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 12 07:13:51 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 12 07:13:51 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 12 08:44:00 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 12 08:44:00 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 12 16:31:47 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 12 16:31:47 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 12 19:02:26 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 12 19:02:26 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 12 21:35:09 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 12 21:35:09 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 12 22:26:52 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 12 22:26:52 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 13 07:25:48 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 13 07:25:48 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 14 07:47:45 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 14 07:47:45 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 15 07:17:16 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 15 07:17:16 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 15 13:33:51 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 15 13:33:51 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 15 14:38:13 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 15 14:38:13 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Nov 16 11:40:43 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Nov 16 11:40:43 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 Replacing default 3.4 with daily: 3.7.0-rc5-2-desktop i686
Nov 16 16:35:37 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed Nov 16 16:35:37 EeePc-Rob-SFN9 kernel: tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 EeePc-Rob-SFN9:~ #
If you look at the dates, you can see the previous Daily, the default 3.4, and the new daily: 3.7.0-rc5-2-desktop i686 Today is boot, and replacing kernel reboot time. So this is the "what doesn't know, doesn't hurt" scenario i guess. Anyway it makes no sense replacing the kernel by a previous one, just to 'not' see an error message, now does it? so logging is there, but no error message... (replacing the cpu is not an option in an eee-pc ..lol..) EeePc-Rob-SFN9:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep tsc flags : fpu vme de pse *tsc* msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx *constant_tsc* arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm -- Have a nice day, Oddball. OS: Linux 3.7.0-rc5-2-desktop i686 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@EeePc-Rob-SFN9 Systeem: openSUSE 12.2 (i586) KDE: 4.9.3 "release 520" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org