Athlon runtime problems

Athlon runtime problems

[Alan Cox]

Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail
me

-	CPU model/stepping
-	Chipset
-	Amount of RAM
-	/proc/mtrr output
-	compiler used

Alan

Re: Athlon runtime problems

[Tim lawless]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail
> me
>
> -	CPU model/stepping
Athlon Thunderbird 700mhz

/proc/cpu:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 6
model		: 4
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 700.034
cache size	: 256 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips	: 1395.91

> -	Chipset

VIA KT133

> -	Amount of RAM

256MB

> -	/proc/mtrr output

reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xd4000000 (3392MB), size=  32MB: write-combining, count=2
reg05: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=3

> -	compiler used

kgcc under redhat:
gcc driver version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease) executing gcc version
egcs-2.91.66

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Re: Athlon runtime problems

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail
> me

Just trying to privide you with usefull info.  I'm NOT seeing any
crashes at all.

> -	CPU model/stepping

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 807.190
cache size      : 256 KB

> -	Chipset

VIA KT133/KM133
(An Asus A7V)

> -	Amount of RAM

128 MiB

> -	/proc/mtrr output

No support for it compiled in.

> -	compiler used

gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
(compiled myself)


Kurt

Re: Athlon runtime problems

[Jeff Lightfoot]

[ sent to linux-kernel due to Alan rejecting all mail from 
Earthlink/Mindspring, I'm assuming he is still interested in the 
report though ]

On Saturday 14 April 2001 09:13, Alan Cox wrote:
> Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised
> kernels all mail me

I have two Athlon machines with mysterious (no oops) lockups.  I've 
just started running them as 586 to see if that stops the lockups.

The first one:
> -	CPU model/stepping
model		: 4
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping		: 2
cpu MHz	: 1195.214

> -	Chipset
VIA KT133/KM133
(Iwill KK266)

> -	Amount of RAM
MemTotal:       770960 kB

> -	/proc/mtrr output
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x20000000 ( 512MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0xd4000000 (3392MB), size=  32MB: write-combining, count=2
reg05: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=2

> -	compiler used
gcc 2.95.4

The second one:
> -	CPU model/stepping

model		: 4
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping		: 2
cpu MHz	: 1000.050

> -	Chipset
VIA KT133/KM133
(MSI K7TPro)

> -	Amount of RAM
MemTotal:       255588 kB

> -	/proc/mtrr output
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg05: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1

> -	compiler used
gcc 2.95.4

Re: Athlon runtime problems

[Moses Mcknight]

Alan Cox wrote:

> Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail
> me
> 
> -	CPU model/stepping

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 850Mhz
Stepping - 2


> -	Chipset

VIA KT133A chipset, Iwill KK266 MB.
According to a couple other people this problem may only occur on this 
motherboard.


> -	Amount of RAM

256 MB Corsair PC150


> -	/proc/mtrr output

reg: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg: base=0xd5000000 (3408MB), size=  16MB: write-combining, count=1


> -	compiler used

2.95.3 - Debian unstable package.


> 
> Alan

When these errors occur, I never get to a shell prompt.  Is there a way 
to save the errors or have them saved somewhere so I don't have to write 
all that stuff down?  Also, how can I set the console buffer (what is it 
called, where you can view previous screens with SHIFT + PgUP/DOWN?) to 
hold more so I don't lose some of the errors?

Thanks,
Moses

Re: Athlon runtime problems

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> Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail
> me
> -	CPU model/stepping
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 1202.743

(/proc/cpuinfo attached) 1.2G Tbird

> -	Chipset

Iwill KK266, VIA KT133

> -	Amount of RAM

512M PC133 amd-approved

> -	/proc/mtrr output
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1
reg05: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1

(This is from inside X on a K6 kernel. I can try to save it out from the
K7 kernel if needed.)

> -	compiler used

gcc version 2.95.3 20010219 (prerelease)
debian gcc 2.95.3-5

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processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 6
model		: 4
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1202.743
cache size	: 256 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips	: 2398.61

Re: Athlon runtime problems

[Gary White (Network Administrator)]

Alan Cox wrote:

> Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail
> me
>
> -       CPU model/stepping

vendor_id      : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model            : 4
model name   : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping         : 2
cpu MHz       : 1009.002
cache size      : 256 KB


> -       Chipset

Asus A7V133/WOA
VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365

> -       Amount of RAM

Mem:     525275136  469438464   55836672          0  179589120  221396992
-/+ buffers/cache:          68452352  456822784
Swap:             518180864          0  518180864

>
> -       /proc/mtrr output

reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xe2000000 (3616MB), size=  32MB: write-combining, count=2
reg07: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1

>
> -       compiler used

Tried both....
gcc-2.95.3
egcs-2.91.66

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Re: Athlon runtime problems

[David Smith]

> Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all
> mail me
> - CPU model/stepping
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 902.064

thunderbird 900 (200 MHz FSB)

> - Chipset
IWill KK266R, VIA KT133A north, 686B south bridges. IDE RAID is disabled.

> - Amount of RAM
256 M generic pc100.

> - /proc/mtrr output
(while in X, with geforce2 card, and AGP aperature set to 128)
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size=  32MB: write-combining, count=1
reg05: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1

> - compiler used
gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease)
debian gcc package version 1:2.95.3-7


Is there any other information I can provide?

I also seem to have a problem running 2.4.3 (official and ac1-6) kernels
without K7 optimizations, it locks up under I/O using several interrupts (no
IDE involved). I'll post a message about it when I can keep it up long enough
to get debugging information.

Re: Athlon runtime problems

[Ray Shaw]

>CPU model/stepping
AMD Duron, 800mhz

>chipset
VIA KT-133; motherboard is an ABIT KT7A-RAID

>amount of RAM
256M, single PC-133 SDRAM

>/proc/mtrr output
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg05: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size=  64MB: write-combining, count=1

>compiler used
gcc version 2.95.2

It seems to blow up when I'm doing something which probably wants lots
of memory, ie running X and opening up several mozilla windows (though
it still crashes while just running X, Enlightenment, and w3m in an
Eterm...but it does take a little longer, though still < 30 min.).

I went back to 2.2.18 and the crashing stopped.  I am using UDMA66 on
one of my drives, no DMA on the other two.

I haven't tried a non-Athlon optimised kernel, nor one with as few
options as possible; hopefully I will get the chance to do this soon.


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--Ray

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