Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:32:46 +0200 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Readd BUG for SMP TLB IPI |
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On 09 Jul 2003 18:04:15 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-07-09 at 17:58, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It can happen to any PII/PIII box, its just very very rare on others, so > > > rare I guess such crashes are in the noise. > > > > How do you know it an happen on them? Do you have backtraces? > > I sat down with a BP6 owner and did lots of debugging.
I meant on the not known-to-be-nearly-unusable boards. Or are you saying that on the other boards the APIC bus could be lossy too, but it's very unlikely?
[my personal feeling would be to consider the lossy APIC bus to be a hardware problem, like an MCE that cannot be really handled]
> > If the BUG was there they wouldn't be in the noise. With the incomplete/broken > > handling it's just a silent hang. > > I'm not arguing BUG is better than hang, but working right is better than BUG 8)
I suspect when you have a lossy APIC bug you will run into problems with other IPIs too, it's really an uphill fight which you are likely to lose.
Anyways, having a clear BUG will make it easier to evaluate if there is really a problem.
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