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From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: ak@suse.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br,
	torvalds@osdl.org, vherva@niksula.hut.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI watchdog documentation
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:18:54 +0200 (MEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307301918.h6UJIskn020572@harpo.it.uu.se> (raw)

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:06:30 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>Right, 1 and 2 need to be exchanged. Anyways local apic mode does not seem
>to work, the kernel always reportss "NMI stuck" at bootup.
>IO APIC mode for is default.

That's strange. I've tested perfctr-generated interrupts through
the local APIC on Opteron, and they work with the perfctr driver.

Two things you might want to test:
- In case the unofficial event 0x76 really doesn't work in your
  version of the chip, try this event specifier instead: it
  creates a clock-like event using an inverted threshold approach.
  I've tested this on K8 and P6 with the perfctr driver. The event
  code (0xC0) is immaterial, 0x00 and 0xFF work equally well.

--- linux-2.6.0-test2/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c.~1~	2003-07-03 12:32:44.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.0-test2/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c	2003-07-30 20:46:21.412657728 +0200
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 #define K7_EVNTSEL_OS		(1 << 17)
 #define K7_EVNTSEL_USR		(1 << 16)
 #define K7_EVENT_CYCLES_PROCESSOR_IS_RUNNING	0x76
-#define K7_NMI_EVENT		K7_EVENT_CYCLES_PROCESSOR_IS_RUNNING
+#define K7_NMI_EVENT		(0xC0 | (1<<23) | (0xFF << 24))
 
 #define P6_EVNTSEL0_ENABLE	(1 << 22)
 #define P6_EVNTSEL_INT		(1 << 20)

- My perfctr driver routes interrupts through LVTPC programmed for
  Fixed delivery mode. Maybe the NMI delivery mode is broken. You
  could try changing the NMI watchdog to use a new vector and Fixed
  delivery mode, just to see if the watchdog starts ticking.

/Mikael

             reply	other threads:[~2003-07-30 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-30 19:18 Mikael Pettersson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-31 21:25 [PATCH] NMI watchdog documentation Mikael Pettersson
2003-07-30 22:53 Mikael Pettersson
2003-07-31  5:44 ` Ville Herva
2003-07-30 19:20 Mikael Pettersson
2003-07-30 19:40 ` Ville Herva
2003-07-29 10:37 Mikael Pettersson
2003-07-29 16:06 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-29 17:53   ` Ville Herva
2003-07-23 17:43 Ville Herva
2003-07-28 17:53 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-28 19:21   ` Ville Herva

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