Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on Phenom with Debian 2.6.24-4

[Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>]

In fact BIOS 1705 without any boot option seems
to provide a stable machine (51 hours of stress
test without failure). Plus BIOS 1705 has
an explicit TLB fix auto/enable/disable
that the previous BIOS didn't have (even
if TLB fix was on).

So probably it was probably a BIOS bug, we're continuing
the stress testing.

Laurent


On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:37 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> hmm, nmi_watchdog=1 disables the local apic timer. Can you add
> "noapictimer" to the kernel command line instead ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 	tglx
>