From: Bob <recbo@nishanet.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 22:34:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD3F15F.4090309@nishanet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <frodoid.frodo.87zne6chry.fsf@usenet.frodoid.org>
Wasn't this formerly fixed by a kernel config
option to not detect cpu idle on amd cpu's?
I don't see that in 2.6
Julien Oster wrote:
>cheuche+lkml@free.fr writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>
>
>>>So gals and guys, try disabling cpu disconnect in bios and see whether
>>>aopic now runs stable.
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
>>Yes that fix it. Well time will tell but I cannot make it crash with
>>hdparm -tT or cat /dev/hda so far. I'm dumping hda to /dev/null right
>>now.
>>After testing to make it crash, I used athcool to reenable CPU
>>disconnect, and guess what, test after that just crashed the box.
>>You found the problem, congratulations.
>>
>>
>
>Well, now I'm stunned.
>
>With APIC and ACPI enabled, my machine isn't even able to boot
>completely, it'll most certainly crash before the init scripts are
>finished.
>
>Now, I modified the init scripts to do "athcool off" as the first
>thing at all (I don't have any "CPU disconnect" BIOS setting) and it
>not only booted, but I even can't seem to make it crash using my
>hdparm/grep/whatever tests...
>
>I don't know if it's "rock solid" yet, but at least the difference is
>huge. It really seems like that made the problem go away!
>
>Regards,
>Julien
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-08 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-05 20:56 Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog Allen Martin
2003-12-05 23:49 ` Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found? Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-05 23:55 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-06 0:15 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-06 0:21 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-06 0:37 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-08 3:08 ` Bob
2003-12-08 3:06 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-12-08 3:03 ` Bob
2003-12-06 8:18 ` Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found cheuche+lkml
2003-12-06 11:22 ` Julien Oster
2003-12-08 3:34 ` Bob [this message]
2003-12-08 8:13 ` Bob
2003-12-06 12:24 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-06 13:11 ` [PATCH] " Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-12-06 15:10 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-06 15:37 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-06 15:35 ` Vladimir Grebinskiy
2003-12-08 3:25 ` Bob
2003-12-08 3:18 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-12-08 10:43 Mikael Pettersson
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