From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:39:22 -0400 Received: from [195.223.140.120] ([195.223.140.120]:21104 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:39:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 17:44:46 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Alan Cox Cc: Peter Waechtler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com Subject: Re: Oops in sched.c on PPro SMP Message-ID: <20020916154446.GI11605@dualathlon.random> References: <174178B9-C980-11D6-8873-00039387C942@mac.com> <1032187767.1191.16.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1032187767.1191.16.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Also does turning off the nmi watchdog junk make the box stable ? good idea, I didn't though about this one since I only heard the nmi to lockup hard boxes after hours of load, never to generate any malfunction, but certainly the nmi handling isn't probably one of the most exercised hardware paths in the cpus, so it's a good idea to reproduce with it turned off (OTOH I guess you probably turned it on explicitly only after you got these troubles, in order to debug them). Andrea