RE: nforce2 stability on 2.6.0-test5 and 2.6.0-test9

ross.alexander
2003-10-30T09:12:27Z

Allen,

Here are the config files you requested. I have also included
the boot logs from both kernel versions.

Many thanks for taking an interest.

Cheers,

Ross

**** /proc/interrupts ****

CPU0
0: 77764351 XT-PIC timer
1: 35127 IO-APIC-edge i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 146812 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 105553 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 1371 IO-APIC-edge ide1
19: 5329271 IO-APIC-level nvidia
21: 12326898 IO-APIC-level NVidia nForce2, eth0
NMI: 0
LOC: 77761842
ERR: 0
MIS: 4

**** /proc/ide/amd74xxx ****

----------AMD BusMastering IDE Configuration----------------
Driver Version: 2.11
South Bridge: 0000:00:09.0
Revision: IDE 0xa2
Highest DMA rate: UDMA133
BM-DMA base: 0xf000
PCI clock: 33.3MHz
-----------------------Primary IDE-------Secondary IDE------
Prefetch Buffer: yes yes
Post Write Buffer: yes yes
Enabled: yes yes
Simplex only: no no
Cable Type: 80w 40w
-------------------drive0----drive1----drive2----drive3-----
Transfer Mode: UDMA DMA UDMA DMA
Address Setup: 30ns 90ns 30ns 90ns
Cmd Active: 90ns 90ns 90ns 90ns
Cmd Recovery: 30ns 30ns 30ns 30ns
Data Active: 90ns 330ns 90ns 330ns
Data Recovery: 30ns 270ns 30ns 270ns
Cycle Time: 20ns 600ns 60ns 600ns
Transfer Rate: 99.9MB/s 3.3MB/s 33.3MB/s 3.3MB/s

**** /proc/ide/ide*/config ****

pci bus 00 device 48 vendor 10de device 0065 channel 0
de 10 65 00 05 00 b0 00 a2 8a 01 01 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 10 11 0c
00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 01
43 10 11 0c 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00
03 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 a8 20 a8 20 22 00 20 20
00 c0 00 c6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 80 a9 10 00 00 02 0c 00 00 7f 36
00 00 46 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
pci bus 00 device 48 vendor 10de device 0065 channel 1
de 10 65 00 05 00 b0 00 a2 8a 01 01 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 10 11 0c
00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 01
43 10 11 0c 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00
03 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 a8 20 a8 20 22 00 20 20
00 c0 00 c6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 80 a9 10 00 00 02 0c 00 00 7f 36
00 00 46 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

**** hdparm -I /dev/hda ****

/dev/hda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: ST380021A
Serial Number: 3HV4HP3X
Firmware Revision: 3.19
Standards:
Supported: 5 4 3 2
Likely used: 6
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
--
CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 156301488
device size with M = 1024*1024: 76319 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 80026 MBytes (80 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
bytes avail on r/w long: 4 Queue depth: 1
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 128
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=240ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* READ BUFFER cmd
* WRITE BUFFER cmd
* Host Protected Area feature set
* Look-ahead
* Write cache
* Power Management feature set
Security Mode feature set
SMART feature set

**** hdparm -I /dev/hdc ****

/dev/hdc:

ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media
Model Number: _NEC CD-ROM CD-3002A
Serial Number:
Firmware Revision: C000
Standards:
Used: ATAPI for CD-ROMs, SFF-8020i, r2.5
Supported: CD-ROM ATAPI-2
Configuration:
DRQ response: 50us.
Packet size: 12 bytes
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
DMA: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
SET MAX security extension
* DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
not frozen
not expired: security count
not supported: enhanced erase
HW reset results:
CBLID- above Vih
Device num = 1
Checksum: correct

**** syslog linux-2.6.0-test5 ****

Linux version 2.6.0-test5 (root@mig27) (gcc version 3.3) #7 SMP Thu Oct 9
12:55:40 BST 2003
Video mode to be used for restore is 305
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000005fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000005fff0000 - 000000005fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000005fff3000 - 0000000060000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
user: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
user: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
user: 0000000000100000 - 000000005fff0000 (usable)
user: 000000005fff0000 - 000000005fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
user: 000000005fff3000 - 0000000060000000 (ACPI data)
user: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
user: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
user: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 393200
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 163824 pages, LIFO batch:16
Processor #0 6:8 APIC version 16
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, IRQ 0-23
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 vga=773 mem=1572800K
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 2162.690 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4276.22 BogoMIPS
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ stepping 01
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.66 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Error: only one processor found.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 2162.0402 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 332.0677 MHz.
Starting migration thread for cpu 0
CPUS done 8
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAPU] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [L3CM] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs *16)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs *17)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs *18)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs *19)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] (IRQs 16, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] (IRQs 23, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] (IRQs 20 21 22, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] enabled at IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled at IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] enabled at IRQ 19
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
AMD_IDE: Bios didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
hda: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory scheduling io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: _NEC CD-ROM CD-3002A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed
Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html

**** syslog linux-2.6.0-test9 ****

Linux version 2.6.0-test9 (root@mig27) (gcc version 3.3.2) #1 SMP Mon Oct
27 10:16:25 GMT 2003
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000005fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000005fff0000 - 000000005fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000005fff3000 - 0000000060000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
user: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
user: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
user: 0000000000100000 - 000000005fff0000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 393200
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 163824 pages, LIFO batch:16
Processor #0 6:8 APIC version 16
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, IRQ 0-23
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 vga=773 mem=1572800K
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 2162.834 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4276.22 BogoMIPS
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ stepping 01
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.66 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 2162.0362 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 332.0671 MHz.
Starting migration thread for cpu 0
CPUS done 8
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAPU] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [L3CM] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs *16)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs *17)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs *18)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs *19)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] (IRQs 16)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] (IRQs 23)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] (IRQs 20 21 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] enabled at IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled at IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] enabled at IRQ 19
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
AMD_IDE: Bios didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
hda: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
hda: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffdfa)
hdb: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffdfa)
hdb: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffdfa)
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: _NEC CD-ROM CD-3002A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed
Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html

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