Re: movidis x16 hard lockup using 2.6.33

[Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <p2@debian.org>]

Hi David,

> On 03/26/2010 11:41 AM, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks to Jan Rovins and David Daney we linux 2.6.33 working fine with 1 additional
>> patch for the ethernet NICs. We are using this machine as a buildd. Unfortunately
>> we found out that building gcc 4.5 using all available 16 cores causes the machine
>> to lock up after about 6 hours of building. There is no output on the serial
>> console indicating a kernel panic or some malfunction. The machine is hosted in
>> some data center so physical access is difficult.
>>
>> Any insight welcome !
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> What is the output of:
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'system type'
>
>

p2@corelli:/home/buildd$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'system type'                                              
system type		: CUST_WSX16 (CN3860p3.X-500-EXP)


> Also you could try running with the attached patch.  It is not the best  
> watchdog, but it will print the register state for each core when things  
> get stuck.  Occasionally that is enough to see where the problem is.
>

Ok. I will try that.

Thanks,

Peter.