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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Ross Dickson <ross@datscreative.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kumlien <pomac@vapor.com>,
	Jesse Allen <the3dfxdude@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Nforce2 apic timer ack delay
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:33:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040209123355.GB1738@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402082141.09693.ross@datscreative.com.au>

Ross Dickson wrote:
> I was just writing you to tell you how well it prevented lockups
> when my system experienced a hard lockup in a slightly different
> form. Firstly mplayer bailed complaining about misuse of cpu ram
> etc, which is an abnormal failure for this system. I then swapped
> desktops back to continue my email and then no mouse or anything
> else just like one of the original hard lockups.

Well, that's a different form of lockup so it might be a different
culprit.  What was the mplayer error?

> A bit early to draw conclusions but could it be that the bios also
> executes a hlt instruction in a System Management Interrupt??
> Perhaps on detecting a hot cpu or something??

Perhaps.  Are you using APM or ACPI?  I think they override
"idle=poll" and call into the BIOS for idling.

-- Jamie

      reply	other threads:[~2004-02-09 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-21  9:17 Updated Lockup Patches, 2.6.0 Nforce2, apic timer ack delay, ioapic edge for NMI debug Ross Dickson
2003-12-21 16:29 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-22 18:50 ` Daniel Drake
2003-12-22 23:56   ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-24 15:41     ` Daniel Drake
2003-12-24 17:49 ` really bensoo_at_soo_dot_com
2004-02-07 14:55 ` Nforce2 apic timer ack delay Jamie Lokier
2004-02-08 11:41   ` Ross Dickson
2004-02-09 12:33     ` Jamie Lokier [this message]

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