From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: KVM induced panic on 2.6.38[2367] & 2.6.39 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:37:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4DF21002.3040708@teksavvy.com> References: <4DED344D.7000005@pandora.be> <4DED9C23.2030408@fnarfbargle.com> <4DEE27DE.7060004@trash.net> <4DEE3859.6070808@fnarfbargle.com> <4DEE4538.1020404@trash.net> <1307471484.3091.43.camel@edumazet-laptop> <4DEEACC3.3030509@trash.net> <4DEEBFC2.4060102@fnarfbargle.com> <1307505541.3102.12.camel@edumazet-laptop> <4DEFAB15.2060905@fnarfbargle.com> <20110610025249.GD643@verge.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brad Campbell , Eric Dumazet , Patrick McHardy , Bart De Schuymer , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Horman Return-path: Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:17176 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755273Ab1FJMh1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:37:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110610025249.GD643@verge.net.au> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11-06-09 10:52 PM, Simon Horman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 01:02:13AM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote: >> On 08/06/11 11:59, Eric Dumazet wrote: >> >>> Well, a bisection definitely should help, but needs a lot of time in >>> your case. >> >> Yes. compile, test, crash, walk out to the other building to press >> reset, lather, rinse, repeat. >> >> I need a reset button on the end of a 50M wire, or a hardware watchdog! Something many of us don't realize is that nearly all Intel chipsets have a built-in hardware watchdog timer. This includes chipset for consumer desktop boards as well as the big iron server stuff. It's the "i8xx_tco" driver in the kernel enables use of them: modprobe i8xx_tco Cheers