Re: email address (was SMP lockup with 2.4.12 on VIA chipset (still

PinkFreud (pf-kernel@mirkwood.net)
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 08:15:26 -0400 (EDT)


It's been awhile, but I'm fairly sure I've tried it. However, I'll give
it a shot again and let you know how it goes.

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Ken Brownfield wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:09:47 -0500
> From: Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>
> To: PinkFreud <pf-kernel@mirkwood.net>
> Subject: Re: email address (was SMP lockup with 2.4.12 on VIA chipset
> (still does it))
>
> My original response to you was to boot with "noapic" on the kernel
> command line. But you might want to try the posted patch first. I'd
> bet a dollar that "noapic" fixes your problem. And let the list know if
> it does -- maybe with enough people posting someone will look at this
> APIC issue that's existed at least since 2.4.0-test1.
>
> Thx,
> --
> Ken.
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:25:44PM -0400, PinkFreud wrote:
> | Doh. Someone pointed out that this email address wasn't working. That
> | should be fixed now. Any replies to this address should now get to
> | me. :)
> |
> | <smacks forehead>
> |
> |
> | On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, PinkFreud wrote:
> |
> | > Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:57:12 -0400 (EDT)
> | > From: PinkFreud <pf-kernel@mirkwood.net>
> | > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> | > Subject: SMP lockup with 2.4.12 on VIA chipset (still does it)
> | >
> | > *PLEASE* CC: me in any replies, I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks.
> | >
> | > Ok, all. I finally got some time (and a null modem cable) to look at this
> | > lockup a bit more. To refresh everyone's memory, this is a dual CPU PIII
> | > on a VIA chipset with a Matrox G400. If I start X, switch to a text
> | > console, and switch back to X, there's a 99% chance the box will lock up -
> | > no keyboard, mouse, or network. (This was brought up two months ago in
> | > the 'Are we going too fast?' thread.)
> | >
> | > Included at the bottom of this message are the kernel messages upon
> | > boot. NMI watchdog reported absolutely NOTHING when the lockup
> | > occured. Note that these messages are from the boot after the crash -
> | > you'll notice that NMI watchdog is now reporting it's stuck on CPU#0. In
> | > the first boot (before the lockup), NMI watchdog seemed to be fine:
> | > testing NMI watchdog ... OK.
> | >
> | > Please note that this lockup does *NOT* happen with 2.2.19 with SMP, nor
> | > does it happen with 2.4.x WITHOUT SMP. Therefore, I would think
> | > whatever's causing this has to do with something that changed in SMP
> | > between 2.2.x and 2.4.x. Please feel free to yell at me if I should post
> | > this elsewhere.
> | >
> | > Without further ado, I present eriador's boot messages:
> | >
> | > Linux version 2.4.12 (root@eriador) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #1 SMP Sat Oct 20 01:53:08 EDT 2001
> | > BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> | > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
> | > BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> | > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> | > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000000f00000 (usable)
> | > BIOS-e820: 0000000000f00000 - 0000000001000000 (reserved)
> | > BIOS-e820: 0000000001000000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
> | > BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
> | > BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
> | > BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> | > found SMP MP-table at 000fb170
> | > hm, page 000fb000 reserved twice.
> | > hm, page 000fc000 reserved twice.
> | > hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
> | > hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
> | > On node 0 totalpages: 131072
> | > zone(0): 4096 pages.
> | > zone(1): 126976 pages.
> | > zone(2): 0 pages.
> | > Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
> | > Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
> | > OEM ID: VIA Product ID: VT3075 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
> | > Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
> | > Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
> | > I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
> | > Processors: 2
> | > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 nmi_watchdog=1 console=ttyS0,115200
> | > Initializing CPU#0
> | > Detected 1000.221 MHz processor.
> | > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> | > Calibrating delay loop... 1992.29 BogoMIPS
> | > Memory: 512604k/524288k available (1039k kernel code, 10272k reserved, 394k data, 220k init, 0k highmem)
> | > Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> | > Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> | > Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> | > Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> | > Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> | > CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> | > CPU: L2 cache: 256K
> | > Intel machine check architecture supported.
> | > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> | > Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> | > Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> | > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> | > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> | > mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
> | > mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
> | > CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> | > CPU: L2 cache: 256K
> | > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> | > CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
> | > per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.00 usecs.
> | > enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
> | > ESR value before enabling vector: 00000004
> | > ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
> | > Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
> | > Initializing CPU#1
> | > masked ExtINT on CPU#1
> | > ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
> | > ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
> | > Calibrating delay loop... 1998.84 BogoMIPS
> | > CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> | > CPU: L2 cache: 256K
> | > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
> | > CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
> | > Total of 2 processors activated (3991.14 BogoMIPS).
> | > ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> | > Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map
> | > ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
> | > ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
> | > activating NMI Watchdog ... done.
> | > testing NMI watchdog ... CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck!
> | > testing the IO APIC.......................
> | >
> | > .................................... done.
> | > Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> | > calibrating APIC timer ...
> | > ..... CPU clock speed is 1000.0940 MHz.
> | > ..... host bus clock speed is 133.3457 MHz.
> | > cpu: 0, clocks: 1333457, slice: 444485
> | > CPU0<T0:1333456,T1:888960,D:11,S:444485,C:1333457>
> | > cpu: 1, clocks: 1333457, slice: 444485
> | > CPU1<T0:1333456,T1:444480,D:6,S:444485,C:1333457>
> | > checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
> | > Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x2)
> | > All processors have done init_idle
> | > mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings
> | > mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
> | > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
> | > PCI: Using configuration type 1
> | > PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> | > PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0
> | > PCI: Enabling Via external APIC routing
> | > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> | > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> | > Initializing RT netlink socket
> | > apm: BIOS not found.
> | > Starting kswapd
> | > VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> | > ACPI: System description tables not found
> | > ACPI-0076: *** Error: Acpi_load_tables: Could not get RSDP, AE_ERROR
> | > ACPI-0124: *** Error: Acpi_load_tables: Could not load tables: AE_ERROR
> | > ACPI: System description table load failed
> | > pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> | > Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
> | > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> | > Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
> | > block: 128 slots per queue, batch=16
> | > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> | > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> | > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 kdev 39
> | > VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
> | > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> | > hda: WDC WD205AA, ATA DISK drive
> | > hdb: WDC WD307AA, ATA DISK drive
> | > hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0107, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> | > hdd: LS-120 VER5 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> | > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> | > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> | > hda: 40079088 sectors (20520 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2494/255/63
> | > hdb: 60074784 sectors (30758 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3739/255/63
> | > Partition check:
> | > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
> | > hdb: hdb1
> | > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> | > Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
> | > options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
> | > Intel PCIC probe: not found.
> | > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> | > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> | > IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
> | > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
> | > ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> | > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> | > Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
> | > INIT: version 2.76 booting
> | > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.

Mike Edwards

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