Re: ICH9 & Core2 Duo - kernel crash

["Olivér Pintér" <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>]

On 12/4/07, Pavol Cvengros <pavol.cvengros@primeinteractive.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying LKML to get some help on one linux kernel related problem.
> Lately we got a machine with new HW from Intel. CPU is Intel Core2 Duo E6850
> 3GHz with 2GB of RAM. Motherboard is Intel DG33BU with G33 chipset.
>
> After long fight with kernel crashes on different things, we figured out
> that
> if the multicore is disabled in bios, everything is ok and machine is
> running
> good. No kernel crashes no problems, but with one core only.
>
> This small table will maybe explain:
>
> Cores   -     kernel   -   state
>    2  -   nonsmp or smp  - crash
>    1  -  smp or nonsmp  - ok
>
> All crashes have been different (swaper, rcu, irq, init.....) or we just got
> internal gcc compiler error while compiling kernel/glibc/.... and the
> machine
> was frozen.
>
> Please can somebody advise what to do to identify that problem more
> precisely.
> (debug kernel options?)
>
> Our immpresion - ICH9 & ICH9R support in kernel is bad... sorry to say..
>
> lspci:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation DRAM Controller (rev 02)
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Integrated Graphics
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation MEI Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
> 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
> 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
> 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
> 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
> 02:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101 single-port
> PATA133 interface (rev b1)
> 06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>
> Thanks for any kind of help...

kernel version?

>
> Best regards,
>
> Pavol Cvengros
>
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Thanks,
Oliver