Re: Tyan Opteron boards and problems with parallel ports (badpmd)

["Alexander Y. Fomichev" <gluk@php4.ru>]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 17:51, Christopher Warner wrote:
>  > > What we need is to try and single out the variables that are causing
>  > > the
>  > >
> > > > badpmd's. Also the more people who report badpmd's with Andi Kleen's
> > > > intial patch the better. Especially on different archs; would also be
> > > > good. So far from lkml i'm only seeing Tyan S28* boards as of recent.
> > >
> > > We have run into different problem (for our different from S28*arch)
> > > for the box which had had badpmd issues with v2.6.11 (see:
> > >     http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/May/6369.html)
> >
> > Oops, wrong link, right one is: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/11/42
> >
> > > with 2.6.12-rc5 we are always getting dozens of user-space segfaults:
> > >
> > > grep[25377]: segfault at 0000000000014aa0 rip 00002aaaaad37130 rsp
> > > 00007fffffb13cb8 error4 grep[29940]: segfault at 0000000000014aa0 rip
> > > 00002aaaaad37130 rsp 00007fffff913428 error4 sed[5849] general
> > > protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffffb231d0 error:0 sed[27437] general
> > > protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7ffffff248c0 error:0 sed[27473] general
> > > protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffff923740 error:0 sed[27472] general
> > > protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffff923740 error:0 sed[28434] general
> > > protection rip:406965 rsp:7fffffb23f10 error:0 grep[32583]: segfault at
> > > 0000000000014aa0 rip 00002aaaaad37130 rsp 00007fffffd13b58 error4
> > > sed[9074] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffffb248a0 error:0
> > > sed[9546] general protection rip:406965 rsp:7fffffb23cc0 error:0
> > > sed[4331] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffff922fb0 error:0
> > > sed[17906] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffffd24b30 error:0
> > > sed[17934] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffffd243a0 error:0
> > > sed[19555] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffff924ad0 error:0
> > > sed[20453] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7ffffff23010 error:0
> > >
> > > during the build of mysql.
> > >
> > > There also was an oops with v2.6.12-rc3 for the same box:
> > > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/May/6369.html
> > >
> > > Box passed two iterations of memtest86 (unfortunately this
> > > is a production box, so we can't wait for days).
>
> Do you have any mobo/chipset information and are those amd64's opterons?
>

Yes, sure. This is  Dual Opteron 246 host, mobo -- Iwill DK8S2 
[AMD-8111/8131].

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        Alexander Y. Fomichev <gluk@php4.ru>
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