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Ross Dickson wrote: > I was just writing you to tell you how well it prevented lockups > when my system experienced a hard lockup in a slightly different > form. Firstly mplayer bailed complaining about misuse of cpu ram > etc, which is an abnormal failure for this system. I then swapped > desktops back to continue my email and then no mouse or anything > else just like one of the original hard lockups. Well, that's a different form of lockup so it might be a different culprit. What was the mplayer error? > A bit early to draw conclusions but could it be that the bios also > executes a hlt instruction in a System Management Interrupt?? > Perhaps on detecting a hot cpu or something?? Perhaps. Are you using APM or ACPI? I think they override "idle=poll" and call into the BIOS for idling. -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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