From: "b@netzentry.com" <b@netzentry.com>
To: mfedyk@matchmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:41:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD109B6.8080503@netzentry.com> (raw)
>Everyone with this problem should turn on the nmi_watchdog, as
>someone may
>have the right circumstances to produce an oops where the
>others didn't.
>
>I say that you're not serious about getting this fixed unless
>you're going
>to do all of:
To quote Allen Martin:
>NVIDIA doesn't provide a windows driver to setup APIC interrupts.
>
>APIC functionality is exported through the ACPI methods and MP
>table in the system BIOS which the motherboard vendors supply.
>Likely the root of the problem has to do with the way the Linux
>kernel is using the ACPI methods to setup the interrupts which
>is different from win 9x/2k/XP. I can help track this down,
>unfortunately so far I've been unable to reproduce the hangs
>on any of the boards I have.
and
>> Do you know whether the nforce2's with apic support the timer
>> (IRQ 0) in
>> IO-APIC mode? To me, it seems like a bug:
>> "Dec 4 20:13:11 tesore kernel: ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not
>> connected to
>> IO-APIC"
>> (This message originates in arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c)
>>
>
>Yes, Win 9x/2k/XP use the system timer on irq0 and have no problem. I
>haven't looked at this yet.
>
Is it not possible that Linux could be made to handling this hardware
correctly?
>
> o turn on nmi_watchdog
> o try the patches posted[1]
> o contact nvidia or your motherboard manufacturer saying you
>need linux
> support, and return the board if they don't. (phone, fax,
>email, or even
> local office if there is one)
>
>I bought a VIA board to avoid the problems I expected from the
>nforce, and I
>needed a system (server) that would *work* now.
>
>[1] If you're worried about your file system, just boot the
>patched kernel in
>single mode, and that will mount all of your file systems
>read-only so there
>will be little chance of corruption.
>
>Mike
next reply other threads:[~2003-12-05 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-05 22:41 b [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-17 18:14 Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog Ross Dickson
2003-12-17 21:41 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-17 21:48 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-18 1:30 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-18 14:32 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-19 4:17 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-19 15:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-18 14:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-18 14:22 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-19 5:38 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-19 10:36 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-19 4:06 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-19 15:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-13 3:56 Ross Dickson
2003-12-15 13:16 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-07 19:58 Fixes for nforce2 hard lockup, apic, io-apic, udma133 covered Ian Kumlien
2003-12-08 2:07 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-09 18:12 ` Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog Ian Kumlien
2003-12-09 22:04 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-09 23:13 ` Ian Kumlien
2003-12-10 6:14 ` Bob
2003-12-10 7:51 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-05 20:56 Allen Martin
2003-12-05 19:11 Allen Martin
2003-12-05 20:18 ` cheuche+lkml
2003-12-05 20:34 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-05 21:02 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-05 20:55 ` Jesse Allen
2003-12-06 3:20 ` Jesse Allen
2003-12-05 20:36 ` Jesse Allen
2003-12-05 22:55 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-05 23:11 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-05 4:54 Jesse Allen
2003-12-05 7:40 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-05 8:33 ` Josh McKinney
2003-12-05 12:14 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-05 14:19 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-05 17:05 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-05 18:11 ` Josh McKinney
2003-12-05 8:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-05 12:06 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-08 2:20 ` Bob
2003-12-09 14:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-09 16:35 ` Bob
2003-12-10 13:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-12 16:01 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-12 16:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-12 16:57 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-12 17:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-13 5:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-15 13:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-12 22:27 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-15 13:13 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-15 21:42 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-16 13:37 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-16 13:57 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-16 15:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-16 16:44 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-16 16:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-16 17:26 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-16 20:54 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-16 21:53 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-17 14:03 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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