AMD 768 erratum 10 (solved: AMD 760MPX DMA lockup)

* AMD 768 erratum 10 (solved: AMD 760MPX DMA lockup)
@ 2002-09-25 13:24 Jan Kasprzak
  2002-09-26 15:08 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Jan Kasprzak @ 2002-09-25 13:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Mark Hahn, kernel, Petr Konecny, Bruno A. Crespo, Denis Vlasenko,
	Alan Cox

	Hello, all!

two weeks ago I've posted to the LKML the following message:

[...]
: my dual athlon box is unstable in some situations. I can consistently
: lock it up by running the following code:
: 
: fd = open("/dev/hda3", O_RDWR);
: for (i=0; i<1024*1024; i++) {
:         read(fd, buffer, 8192);
:         lseek(fd, -8192, SEEK_CUR);
:         write(fd, buffer, 8192);
: }
[...]

	I think I have been hit by AMD 768 southbridge erratum number 10.
After plugging in the PS/2 mouse, the server is able to run 10 iterations
of bonnie++ without any problem (w/o PS/2 mouse it locks up in first
or second iterations).

	I want to ask everyone who replied to me that the above code
works for him on the 760MPX-based system to re-run the above code
(or run bonnie++ benchmark several times in a loop), but _without_
the PS/2 mouse connected?

	Since this is an official AMD errata, we should have a work-around
for this, or at least the big fat warning during boot, when the 768
southbridge is detected - something like the following:

WARNING: Using the system with AMD 768 southbridge without the PS/2
WARNING: mouse plugged in can cause instabilities. See the AMD 768 erratum #10

	The AMD 768 Revision Guide is at the following URL:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/24472.pdf

the erratum #10 is described on page 7 (pstotext output, manually edited):

: 10	Multiprocessor System May Hang While in FULL APIC Mode
: 	and IOAPIC Interrupt is Masked
: 
: Products Affected. B1, B2
: 
: Normal Specified Operation. The AMD-768 peripheral bus controller is
: designed to support FULL APIC mode in multiprocessor systems for system
: management events. If an interrupt is masked in the APIC controller of
: the AMD-768, then the corresponding interrupt message should not be
: sent to the processor via the 3-wire APIC bus.
: 
: Non-conformance. The AMD-768 peripheral bus controller will send an
: interrupt message via the 3-wire APIC bus regardless if the interrupt
: is masked or not.
: 
: Potential Effect on System. Since the processor had previously masked
: the APIC interrupt, it is not expecting to receive future APIC messages
: for the masked interrupt. The APIC controller will continuously send
: the interrupt message via the 3-wire bus until a processor accepts the
: message, causing the system to hang.
: 
: A system hang has been observed when executing a server shutdown
: command in Novell Netware versions 5.0 or 5.1 while using a serial
: mouse. During the server shutdown sequence, software writes an invalid
: CPU ID to the IOAPIC redirection table, and the system does not
: complete the shutdown.
: 
: Note: No failure has been observed when using a PS/2 mouse.
: 
: Suggested Workaround. None.
: 
: Resolution Status: No fix planned.

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