Commit 901408d3 authored by Zwane Mwaikambo's avatar Zwane Mwaikambo Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Recommend 'noapic' when timer via IOAPIC fails

We might as well recommend the user boot with the noapic kernel parameter
instead of filling poor Ingo's mailbox.
Signed-off-by: default avatarZwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent d17c6b05
...@@ -2212,7 +2212,7 @@ static inline void check_timer(void) ...@@ -2212,7 +2212,7 @@ static inline void check_timer(void)
return; return;
} }
printk(" failed :(.\n"); printk(" failed :(.\n");
panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! pester mingo@redhat.com"); panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter\n");
} }
/* /*
......
...@@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ static inline void check_timer(void) ...@@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ static inline void check_timer(void)
return; return;
} }
printk(" failed :(.\n"); printk(" failed :(.\n");
panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! pester mingo@redhat.com"); panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter\n");
} }
/* /*
......
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