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SubjectRe: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 2c on CPU 0.
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On Thursday, January 31, 2013 09:14:00 AM Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 01/31/2013 08:09 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:54:56AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> On Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:47:40 AM Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >>> On 01/31/2013 12:12 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >>>> I think I will start with commenting parts of `power' script to see
> >>>> exactly which of the power savings cause this.
> >>>
> >>> ... NMI watchdog. If I remove it from the script, the problem
> >>> disappears. If I try it alone, I have those NMIs.
> >>
> >> Well, beats me. :-(
> >>
> >> I suspect that it doesn't quiesce itself sufficiently before image restoration
> >> and we get some crosstalk between the boot kernel and the image kernel.
> >
> > Well, I did what Jiri said causes it:
> >
> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
> >
> > No NMI.
> >
> > BUT(!), if I start powertop and set all tunables in the "Tunables" tab
> > to "Good", then suspend to disk, when I resume I get the NMI and this
> > time the unknown reason is 0x3c. Sounds like this needs bisection...
> > Btw, this is latest -rc5 + tip/master and Jiri triggers it on 3.7-stable
> > ...
>
> And 3.6(.0) was the first one I _tried_ and had that issue too. Not sure
> if there is any bisect-good kernel to start with.
>
> > Btw, this e1000e thing has another problem: when I unplug the network
> > cable and replug it again, it cannot ping local network anymore.
> > Normally, when you plug the network cable back in, it does some sort if
> > link detection saying eth link is back up but it doesn't say it on that
> > box - only a reboot fixes it. Hmm.
>
> I think this is what Konstantin fixes with his patches.

Yes, there are two bugs in e1000e, it appears. Konstantin's patch [2/5]
fixes one of them, but the other one has to be fixed differently.

Boris, would you be able to test a couple of e1000e patches for me?

Rafael


--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.


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