From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lockup on Athlon systems, kernel race condition?
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 11:54:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D750548.9D130AB3@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020903183524.GC2343@hygelac
Terence Ripperda wrote:
>
> ..
> > Possibly the IPI has got lost - seems that this is a popular failure mode
> > for flakey chipsets/motherboards.
>
> this sounds like the most likely candidate. I'm working on tracking down
> documentation for further study. Is there an easy way to determine this
> as the cause?
Some systems will drop nasty messages in the logs when APIC checksum
errors are detected. And such systems will also be prone to lockups
due to failed delivery. But whether IPIs can be lost without any such
warning signs: don't know, sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-30 20:40 lockup on Athlon systems, kernel race condition? Terence Ripperda
2002-08-30 21:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-31 0:36 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-03 18:35 ` Terence Ripperda
2002-09-03 18:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-03 20:46 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-03 21:46 Manfred Spraul
2002-09-03 22:04 ` Terence Ripperda
2002-09-04 15:05 ` Manfred Spraul
2002-09-04 16:17 ` Terence Ripperda
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