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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: bevand_m@epita.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: NMI watchdog detected lockup
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:58:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41740430.30604@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041018200017.0098710d.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:13:11 -0700
> "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Marc Bevand wrote:
>>
>>>On 2004-10-17, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>>>| 
>>>|  I'm seeing this often during a kernel build on AIC79xx.
>>>|  I did one kernel build on SATA without seeing this.
>>>|  This is on a dual-Opteron IBM Workstation A with
>>>|  2 GB RAM, SATA, & SCSI.
>>>|  [...]
>>>|  NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0, registers:
>>>|  [...]
>>>
>>>You are not the first one to observe frequent watchdog timeout
>>>lockup on dual Opteron systems during intense I/O operations,
>>>see this thread:
>>>
>>>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/1933
>>>
>>>Note: this does *not* seem to be SATA-related.
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Zwane suspected NMI spikes and advised me to disable nmi_watchdog
>>(nmi_watchdog=0).  After doing that, a kernel build completes
>>successfully, although with many messages like these:
>>
>>Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21.
> 
> 
> Something on your system creates bogus NMI interrupts. What chipset
> are you using exactly?
> 
> Sometimes chipsets can be programmed to raise NMIs when an PCI bus
> error occurs. 
> 
> 21 is the normal state (PIT timer running, but no errors logged) 
> 
> If you have an AMD 8131 it could be in theory erratum 54, but then
> normally one of the error bits in reason should be set.

Yes, it's an AMD-8111 / 8131 / 8151 / K8-northbridge machine.

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-18 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-17 22:58 NMI watchdog detected lockup Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-18  0:00 ` Marc Bevand
2004-10-18 17:13   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-18 18:00     ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-18 17:58       ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-10-18 18:16         ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-18 18:37           ` Phil Oester
2004-10-21  4:54           ` Randy.Dunlap
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-28  9:10 NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP Jesper Juhl

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