From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266131AbTLIQZi (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:25:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266133AbTLIQZh (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:25:37 -0500 Received: from k-kdom.nishanet.com ([65.125.12.2]:49160 "EHLO mail2k.k-kdom.nishanet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266131AbTLIQZc (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:25:32 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD5FBD5.1060400@nishanet.com> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:44:05 -0500 From: Bob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: merged in bk5 Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found? References: <200312081321.06692.ross@datscreative.com.au> <1070883402.17639.115.camel@athlonxp.bradney.info> <3FD4B785.6010908@nishanet.com> In-Reply-To: <3FD4B785.6010908@nishanet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org if you're following this thread, good news-- nforce2 fixups have been merged in linux-2.6.0-test11-bk5.patch > -bk snapshot (patch-2.6.0-test11-bk5) nforce2-disconnect-quirk.patch > [x86] fix lockups with APIC support on nForce2 > >nforce2-apic.patch > [x86] do not wrongly override mp_ExtINT IRQ plus promise and sis fixes so I don't need to pay for a 3ware controller ;-) that was another show-stopper for me earlier > We're all trying to get acpi, apic, lapic, io-apic working > when turned on in cmos/bios and kernel. > > The three things that each alone have achieved stability > on somebody's system here are 1) bios update 2) cpu > disconnect off either in cmos if available or by athcool > or kernel patch with same 3) timing delay patch > > For CPU disconnect you still need athcool or this one > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/2.6.0-test11-bart1/broken-out/nforce2-disconnect-quirk.patch > > > Both patches are for 2.6.0-test11 kernel. > > turn on ioapic edge timer-- > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/2.6.0-test11-bart1/broken-out/nforce2-apic.patch > > > > Other changes offer clues and expose symptoms but > are not helpful or necessary after da fix is in. udma > settings are a kludge of a error symptom, just aspirin. > > Other kludges are acpi off, local apic off in kernel, > apic off in cmos/bios. These go away when the real > problem is fixed. > > -Bob > > Craig Bradney wrote: > >> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:21, Ross Dickson wrote: >> >> >>> On Monday 08 of December 2003 04:08, Bob wrote: > >>Sounds great.. >>> maybe you have come across something. Yes, the CPU > >>Disconnect >>> function arrived in your BIOS in revision of 2003/03/27 > >>> >>"6.Adds"CPU Disconnect Function" to adjust C1 disconnects. The >>> Chipset > >>does not support C2 disconnect; thus, disable C2 >>> function." > >> > >>For me though.. Im on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe v2 >>> BIOS 1007. From what I can > >>see the CPU Disconnect isnt even in >>> the Uber BIOS 1007 for this ASUS > >>that has been discussed. > >> > >>> >>Craig > > >>> > >I don't have that in MSI K7N2 MCP2-T near the > >agp and fsb >>> spread spectrum items or anywhere >> else. >>> >>>> Use athcool: >>>> http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/jacobi/linux/softwares.html#athcool >>>> or apply kernel patch (2.4 and 2.6 versions were posted already). >>>> --bart >>> >>> Please take a look at >>> Fixes for nforce2 hard lockup, apic, io-apic, udma133 covered >>> >>> in mailing list. >>> >>> I approached it from another angle regarding delaying the apic ack >>> in local timer irq >>> and achieved stability. It would be good to have others try it. Ian >>> Kumlien is also >>> reporting success so far. >>> >>> >> >> >> Although I had long uptimes before.. and therefore might achieve them >> again fairly easily.. I'm now on 2 days 10 hours which has included a >> lot of compilation and a lot of idle time, and plenty of the hdpar and >> grep tests. I have used only the IRQ0 IO-APIC edge patch. >> >> Can someone please note all the patches for 2.6 that people have tried >> and what they achieve? Im starting to get a bit lost, given the fact >> that I'm running stable here with only 1 patch. (so far - this is where >> it crashes after I click Send I suppose ;) ) >> >> -apic >> >> > -local apic("lapic") > > -acpi > > kernel local apic issue and acpi and apic go together, > but turning off lapic first might achieve stability for > some, updating bios will enable using all bios and > linux apic, acpi, lapic, ioapic for some(me twice). > >> -io-apic (IRQO set to XT-PIC incorrectly) >> >> -udma133? >> >> > udma133 may be a clue but I don't think anyone > achieves stability one way or the other on that. I > flogged every possible hdparm change and tried > three brands of hd controller without every > achieving stability, but once you're stable by > using other means you can use 133 and unmask > irq(not for siig sis?) and other hdparm opts. > >> -cpu disconnect patch (missing bios option for ACPI Cx states) >> >> Craig >> >> > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >