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From: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
To: Jonathan Lundell <linux@lundell-bros.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NMI watchdog stability
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:07:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020919120740.GA42108@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p05111a08b9aec118552d@[10.2.2.25]>

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:55:13PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:

> >It was causing SMP boxes to crash mysteriously after
> >several hours or days. Quite a lot of them. Nobody
> >was able to explain why, so it was turned off.
> 
> This was in the context of 2.4.2-ac21. More of the thread,with no 
> conclusive result, can be found at 
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.2/0906.html
> 
> Was there any resolution? Was the problem real, did it get fixed, and 

Some machines corrupt %ecx on the way back from an NMI. Perhaps that was
the factor all the people with problems saw.

regards
john

-- 
"Please crack down on the Chinaman's friends and Hitler's commander.  Mother is
the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.  A boy has never wept ...
nor dashed a thousand kim. Did you hear me?"
	- Dutch Schultz

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-19 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-18 14:46 [BENCHMARK] contest results for 2.5.36 Con Kolivas
2002-09-18 16:41 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-18 16:50   ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-19  8:05     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-19  8:14       ` Con Kolivas
2002-09-18 21:17   ` Con Kolivas
2002-09-18 21:40     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-18 23:55       ` NMI watchdog stability Jonathan Lundell
2002-09-19 12:07         ` John Levon [this message]
2002-09-19 13:20           ` Richard B. Johnson

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