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From: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
To: Zarakin <zarakin@hotpop.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nmi_watchdog=2 - Oops with 2.6.8
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:01:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040825160107.GA562@zaniah> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <021101c48a44$c8f846e0$6401a8c0@novustelecom.net>

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 at 18:42 +0000, Zarakin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My Gentoo machine will not boot with nmi_watchdog=2 parameter - I get an
> oops at clear_msr_range.
> 
> Handwritten oops Info:
> CPU 0
> EIP:  0060: [<0xc0110d4b>] Not tainted
> EIP is at clear_msr_range+0x18/0x25
> eax: 0  ebx:1f  ecx: 3ba  edx: 0
> esi: 3a0  edi: 1a  ebp:0 esp: d7d83f74
> ds: 7b es: 7b ss: 68

> 0xc0110d4b <clear_msr_range+24>:        wrmsr

> model           : 3
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz

try this patch please.

--- linux-2.5/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c~	2004-06-15 10:52:00.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.5/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c	2004-08-25 17:33:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -376,7 +376,13 @@
 		clear_msr_range(0x3F1, 2);
 	/* MSR 0x3F0 seems to have a default value of 0xFC00, but current
 	   docs doesn't fully define it, so leave it alone for now. */
-	clear_msr_range(0x3A0, 31);
+	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model >= 0x3) {
+		/* MSR_P4_IQ_ESCR0/1 (0x3ba/0x3bb) removed */
+		clear_msr_range(0x3A0, 26);
+		clear_msr_range(0x3BC, 3);
+	} else {
+		clear_msr_range(0x3A0, 31);
+	}
 	clear_msr_range(0x3C0, 6);
 	clear_msr_range(0x3C8, 6);
 	clear_msr_range(0x3E0, 2);

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-25  1:42 nmi_watchdog=2 - Oops with 2.6.8 Zarakin
2004-08-25  6:12 ` Philippe Elie
2004-08-25  9:26   ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-08-25 17:05     ` Philippe Elie
2004-08-25 16:01 ` Philippe Elie [this message]
2004-08-26  3:22   ` Zarakin
2004-08-26 17:02     ` Philippe Elie
     [not found]       ` <00f801c48bfa$f5ccefb0$6401a8c0@novustelecom.net>
2004-08-27 16:52         ` nmi_watchdog=2 and oprofile " Philippe Elie

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