From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265132AbTLFMYh (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:24:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265133AbTLFMYh (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:24:37 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:30429 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265132AbTLFMYg (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:24:36 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <3FD1CA81.9010708@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:24:33 +0100 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031116 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cheuche+lkml@free.fr CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found References: <3FD1199E.2030402@gmx.de> <20031206081848.GA4023@localnet> In-Reply-To: <20031206081848.GA4023@localnet> 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 cheuche+lkml@free.fr wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:49:50AM +0100, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > >>So gals and guys, try disabling cpu disconnect in bios and see whether >>aopic now runs stable. >> > > Yes that fix it. Well time will tell but I cannot make it crash with > hdparm -tT or cat /dev/hda so far. I'm dumping hda to /dev/null right > now. > > After testing to make it crash, I used athcool to reenable CPU > disconnect, and guess what, test after that just crashed the box. > You found the problem, congratulations. :-) Isn't it possible to ad athcool's code into the kernel, maybe into the pm section or even make it an kernel option. It seems to be a nice workaround for the time-being. Prakash