Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found?

[Craig Bradney <cbradney@zip.com.au>]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:21, Ross Dickson wrote:
> On Monday 08 of December 2003 04:08, Bob wrote: 
>  > >>Sounds great.. maybe you have come across something. Yes, the CPU 
>  > >>Disconnect function arrived in your BIOS in revision of 2003/03/27 
>  > >>"6.Adds"CPU Disconnect Function" to adjust C1 disconnects. The Chipset 
>  > >>does not support C2 disconnect; thus, disable C2 function." 
>  > >> 
>  > >>For me though.. Im on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe v2 BIOS 1007. From what I can 
>  > >>see the CPU Disconnect isnt even in the Uber BIOS 1007 for this ASUS 
>  > >>that has been discussed. 
>  > >> 
>  > >>Craig 
>  > >
>  > >I don't have that in MSI K7N2 MCP2-T near the 
>  > >agp and fsb spread spectrum items or anywhere 
>  >> else. 
> >Use athcool: 
> >         http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/jacobi/linux/softwares.html#athcool
> > or apply kernel patch (2.4 and 2.6 versions were posted already). 
> >--bart 
> 
> Please take a look at 
> 
> Fixes for nforce2 hard lockup, apic, io-apic, udma133 covered
> 
> in mailing list.
> 
> I approached it from another angle regarding delaying the apic ack in local timer irq
> and achieved stability. It would be good to have others try it. Ian Kumlien is also
> reporting success so far.
>  

Although I had long uptimes before.. and therefore might achieve them
again fairly easily.. I'm now on 2 days 10 hours which has included a
lot of compilation and a lot of idle time, and plenty of the hdpar and
grep tests. I have used only the IRQ0 IO-APIC edge patch.

Can someone please note all the patches for 2.6 that people have tried
and what they achieve? Im starting to get a bit lost, given the fact
that I'm running stable here with only 1 patch. (so far - this is where
it crashes after I click Send I suppose ;) )

-apic

-io-apic (IRQO set to XT-PIC incorrectly)

-udma133?

-cpu disconnect patch (missing bios option for ACPI Cx states)

Craig