Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:31:36 +0100 (MET) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older) |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > a lock of the PCI bus (as SCSI and NIC are still working). Only the > > timer interrupts and NMI seem to be stuck : can a driver cause > > something so "lowlevel" ? > > Something stopping the timers on the APIC I guess. But quite what or how I > don't know
I guess not -- the timer interrupt and the NMI use different I/O APIC inputs. If both are stuck, it's probably 8254 that gets reprogrammed. I suppose XFree86 might be at fault -- does it happen with the NMI watchdog disabled, either?
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