From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Locked up 2.4.10-pre11 on Tyan 815t motherboard.
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:18:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BAF78F9.EC0F67C1@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109241514.f8OFEL005589@deathstar.prodigy.com>
bill davidsen wrote:
>
> In article <3BA8DF59.B9F536B4@candelatech.com> greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> | Andrew Morton wrote:
> |
> | > nmi_watchdog will force an oops if the machine locks up
> | > with interrupts disabled (as I suspect mine did). But
> | > it requires an SMP kernel or IO-APIC-on-UP.
> |
> | I just built a 2.4.8 kernel with the APIC enabled. It locked
> | hard and printed no OOPS. I had set the boot cmd line as:
> | nmi_watchdog=1
>
> This only works if you have a lock with no response. If keyboard input
> is echoed or ping still works, that's not the tight lockup. May I
> suggest the software watchdog feature as an alternative. It's much
> better at finding cases where the system is only braindead rather than
> locked up.
The keyboard did not work and ping did not work...
alt-sysreq did not work either.
Ben
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-19 6:51 Locked up 2.4.10-pre11 on Tyan 815t motherboard Ben Greear
2001-09-19 7:10 ` Ben Greear
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2001-09-19 18:09 ` Ben Greear
2001-09-19 18:38 ` Bruce Harada
2001-09-19 19:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-19 19:53 ` Ben Greear
2001-09-19 20:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-09-19 20:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-19 20:40 ` Locked up 2.4.10-pre11 on Tyan 815t motherboard. [EEPRO-100 bugs] Ben Greear
2001-09-19 21:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 19:28 ` Locked up 2.4.10-pre11 on Tyan 815t motherboard Martin Josefsson
2001-09-19 19:46 ` Ben Greear
2001-09-24 15:14 ` bill davidsen
2001-09-24 18:18 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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