From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263876AbTLEF4l (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:56:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263880AbTLEF4l (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:56:41 -0500 Received: from mail.netzentry.com ([157.22.10.66]:41999 "EHLO netzentry.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263876AbTLEF4h (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:56:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD01E12.4040801@netzentry.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:56:34 -0800 From: "b@netzentry.com" Reply-To: b@netzentry.com Organization: b@netzentry.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: recbo@nishanet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) - IRQ flood related ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have almost everything disabled and the error occurs. USB1 OFF USB2 OFF FireWire OFF SATA - Jumpered OFF AUDIO OFF NVIDIA LAN OFF. lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2) 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3) 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 PCI Bridge (rev a3) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1) 01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation Farallon PN9000SX (rev 01) 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation Farallon PN9000SX (rev 01) 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 40) 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2) Thats it. And this think locks anytime APIC is enabled. Its just a matter of time. Bob wrote >(2.6.0-test11) - IRQ flood related ? > > >Do you have onboard ethernet enabled with nforce2 >mboard? I am fine with pre-emptive kernel but have >to disable onboard ethernet in cmos setup or I see >"Disabling IRQ7" and problems develop. > >-Bob > >Craig Bradney wrote: > >>Prakash, >> >>try it without preempt.. just to see. As soon as I removed it >today the >>crashes went away (for 5 hours).. PC is now up for 2.5 hours and I'm >>waiting to see if it will be 5 hrs or 5 days this time around :) >> >>Craig >> >>On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 00:14, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: >> >> >>>Jesse Allen wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:02:08PM +0100, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hello, >>>>> >>>>>Along with the lockups already described here, I've noticed an >>>>>unidentified source of interrupts on IRQ7. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>I wonder if people experiencing lockup problems also have these >>>>>noise interrupts, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>I just took a look at this, by setting up parport_pc, and >yes I get noise. >>>> >>>>This was my first sample with a kernel with APIC: >>>> 7: 29230 IO-APIC-edge parport0 >>>> >>>> >>>I just did an experiment with a very light kernel, nearly nothing >>>compiled inside, except apic acpi, preempt and needed stuff plus >>>scsi+libata and no ide. IRQ 7 was not present and every >device had its >>>own irq. Nevertheless system locked up at second hdparm run... >>> >>>Prakash >>> >>> >> > >