From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757984AbYDNKYI (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:24:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755375AbYDNKXy (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:23:54 -0400 Received: from 30.mail-out.ovh.net ([213.186.62.213]:47314 "HELO 30.mail-out.ovh.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755658AbYDNKXx (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:23:53 -0400 Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on Phenom with Debian 2.6.24-4 From: Laurent GUERBY Reply-To: laurent@guerby.net To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Oruba In-Reply-To: References: <1205013615.15075.409.camel@localhost> <1205678588.15075.563.camel@localhost> <1206015619.15075.666.camel@localhost> <47E26A5D.40401@amd.com> <1206123836.15075.699.camel@localhost> <1207985304.15628.415.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:23:47 +0200 Message-Id: <1208168627.15628.462.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Ovh-Remote: 82.235.162.148 (gut75-4-82-235-162-148.fbx.proxad.net) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-Spam-Check: DONE|H 0.5/N X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 3516185409846517271 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 >