Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on Phenom with Debian 2.6.24-4 | From | Laurent GUERBY <> | Date | Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:28:24 +0200 |
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Hi,
FYI with Peter off-list help we found a way to make the ASUS M2A-VM with 1604 BIOS stable under my stress test: we just needed nmi_watchdog=1 in the kernel boot options (no other boot option necessary).
With nmi_watchdog=1 we see in kern.log "APIC error" but the machine stayed stable during 3 days of stress testing:
... Apr 7 22:41:43 gcc04 kernel: APIC error on CPU2: 00(40) Apr 7 22:41:43 gcc04 kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 00(40) Apr 7 22:41:43 gcc04 kernel: APIC error on CPU3: 00(40) Apr 7 22:41:43 gcc04 kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) Apr 7 22:53:01 gcc04 kernel: APIC error on CPU3: 40(40) Apr 7 22:53:01 gcc04 kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) Apr 7 22:53:01 gcc04 kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 40(40) ...
guerby@gcc04:~$ cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/sda1 ro nmi_watchdog=1
We are now stress testing the 1705 BIOS version which was released by ASUS on 20080331, with and without nmi_watchdog=1. Then we'll go back to testing the ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-AP with the newer 1002 BIOS also released on 20080331.
Note: for msr decoding xxd should be used since hexdump doesn't work:
xxd -s 0xc0010015 -l 8 /dev/cpu/0/msr
So people having stability problems with Phenom 9x00 with Linux should try nmi_watchdog=1 as boot option.
Sincerely,
Laurent
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