Another entry for the MCE-hang list

Another entry for the MCE-hang list

[Richard Gooch]

  Hi, all. I just booted 2.4.19-pre3, and it hung right after the MCE
message. This is an Asus P2B-D with two Intel 450 MHz PIII's. Output
of /proc/cpuinfo appended.

				Regards,

					Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 7
model name	: Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping	: 3
cpu MHz		: 451.032
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips	: 897.84

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 7
model name	: Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping	: 3
cpu MHz		: 451.032
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips	: 901.12

Re: Another entry for the MCE-hang list

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:46:25PM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote:
>   Hi, all. I just booted 2.4.19-pre3, and it hung right after the MCE
> message. This is an Asus P2B-D with two Intel 450 MHz PIII's. Output
> of /proc/cpuinfo appended.
> 

Won't that change hang on *all* pii/piii systems? (I've only tested it on
one pii box)

Re: Another entry for the MCE-hang list

[Jeff Garzik]

Richard Gooch wrote:

>  Hi, all. I just booted 2.4.19-pre3, and it hung right after the MCE
>message. This is an Asus P2B-D with two Intel 450 MHz PIII's. Output
>of /proc/cpuinfo appended.
>

My ASUS P2B-D with dual P-II 400's is strange...

I -was- getting the hang, but then I recompiled on a different host, 
with possibly a different compiler, and the hang went away.  Sorry I 
cannot be more specific than this :(

The "running ok" case, which came -after- the hang case, was 
2.4.19-pre3-BK-latest with gcc 3.0.4-MDK.

    Jeff

Re: Another entry for the MCE-hang list

[Richard Gooch]

Jeff Garzik writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> >  Hi, all. I just booted 2.4.19-pre3, and it hung right after the MCE
> >message. This is an Asus P2B-D with two Intel 450 MHz PIII's. Output
> >of /proc/cpuinfo appended.
> >
> 
> My ASUS P2B-D with dual P-II 400's is strange...
> 
> I -was- getting the hang, but then I recompiled on a different host, 
> with possibly a different compiler, and the hang went away.  Sorry I 
> cannot be more specific than this :(
> 
> The "running ok" case, which came -after- the hang case, was 
> 2.4.19-pre3-BK-latest with gcc 3.0.4-MDK.

I'm using egcs-1.1.2. I've bailed out of gcc-2.95.3 because it's
buggy. 


				Regards,

					Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

Re: Another entry for the MCE-hang list

[Alan Cox]

> > The "running ok" case, which came -after- the hang case, was 
> > 2.4.19-pre3-BK-latest with gcc 3.0.4-MDK.
> 
> I'm using egcs-1.1.2. I've bailed out of gcc-2.95.3 because it's
> buggy. 

egcs-1.1.2 is known to miscompile some driver code and other oddments in
2.4. 

Re: Another entry for the MCE-hang list

[Alan Cox]

>   Hi, all. I just booted 2.4.19-pre3, and it hung right after the MCE
> message. This is an Asus P2B-D with two Intel 450 MHz PIII's. Output
> of /proc/cpuinfo appended.

See linux-kernel for the past week. Its been discussed repeatedly. Pre3 only
works on non intel chips unless you kill MCE support

Re: Another entry for the MCE-hang list

[Florian Weimer]

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

>> > The "running ok" case, which came -after- the hang case, was 
>> > 2.4.19-pre3-BK-latest with gcc 3.0.4-MDK.
>> 
>> I'm using egcs-1.1.2. I've bailed out of gcc-2.95.3 because it's
>> buggy. 
>
> egcs-1.1.2 is known to miscompile some driver code and other oddments in
> 2.4. 

Oh, really?

| COMPILING the kernel:
| 
|  - Make sure you have gcc-2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) available.  gcc 2.95.2 may
|    also work but is not as safe, and *gcc 2.7.2.3 is no longer supported*.
|    Also remember to upgrade your binutils package (for as/ld/nm and company)
|    if necessary. For more information, refer to ./Documentation/Changes.

(2.4.18 linux/README)

linux/Documentation/Changes is more helpful, though.

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Re: Another entry for the MCE-hang list

[Alan Cox]

> |  - Make sure you have gcc-2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) available.  gcc 2.95.2 may
> |    also work but is not as safe, and *gcc 2.7.2.3 is no longer supported*.
> |    Also remember to upgrade your binutils package (for as/ld/nm and company)
> |    if necessary. For more information, refer to ./Documentation/Changes.
> 
> (2.4.18 linux/README)

 - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available.  gcc 2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) may
   also work but is not as safe, and *gcc 2.7.2.3 is no longer supported*.
   Also remember to upgrade your binutils package (for as/ld/nm and company)
   if necessary. For more information, refer to ./Documentation/Changes.

(2.4.19pre3 linux/README)