Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Dec 2003 22:34:55 -0500 | From | Bob <> | Subject | Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found |
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Wasn't this formerly fixed by a kernel config option to not detect cpu idle on amd cpu's? I don't see that in 2.6
Julien Oster wrote:
>cheuche+lkml@free.fr writes: > >Hello, > > > >>>So gals and guys, try disabling cpu disconnect in bios and see whether >>>aopic now runs stable. >>> >>> > > > >>Yes that fix it. Well time will tell but I cannot make it crash with >>hdparm -tT or cat /dev/hda so far. I'm dumping hda to /dev/null right >>now. >>After testing to make it crash, I used athcool to reenable CPU >>disconnect, and guess what, test after that just crashed the box. >>You found the problem, congratulations. >> >> > >Well, now I'm stunned. > >With APIC and ACPI enabled, my machine isn't even able to boot >completely, it'll most certainly crash before the init scripts are >finished. > >Now, I modified the init scripts to do "athcool off" as the first >thing at all (I don't have any "CPU disconnect" BIOS setting) and it >not only booted, but I even can't seem to make it crash using my >hdparm/grep/whatever tests... > >I don't know if it's "rock solid" yet, but at least the difference is >huge. It really seems like that made the problem go away! > >Regards, >Julien > >
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