Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found

Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-06T12:24:37Z

cheuche+lkml@free.fr wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:49:50AM +0100, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
>
>>So gals and guys, try disabling cpu disconnect in bios and see whether
>>aopic now runs stable.
>>
>
> Yes that fix it. Well time will tell but I cannot make it crash with
> hdparm -tT or cat /dev/hda so far. I'm dumping hda to /dev/null right
> now.
>
> After testing to make it crash, I used athcool to reenable CPU
> disconnect, and guess what, test after that just crashed the box.
> You found the problem, congratulations.

:-)

Isn't it possible to ad athcool's code into the kernel, maybe into the
pm section or even make it an kernel option. It seems to be a nice
workaround for the time-being.

Prakash