linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18 Nasty Lockup

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Date:	Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:06:00 +0300
From:	"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
Cc:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Greg Schafer <gschafer@....com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 Nasty Lockup

27 Eyl 2006 Çar 23:55 tarihinde, Andi Kleen şunları yazmıştı: 
> > Ok. Good to hear you have a workaround. Now to sort out why your TSCs
> > are becoming un-synced. From the dmesg you sent me privately, I noticed
>
> On Intel it seems to happen when people overclock their systems.

This sytem is not overlocked, its a pure 2 x Intel Xeon 3GHz with HT.

> > that while you have 4 cpus, the following message only shows up once:
> >
> > ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
> >
> > Does disabling cpufreq change anything?
>
> Throttling has nothing to do with cpufreq
> (at least not until you use the broken P4 throttling cpufreq
> driver, which nobody should). It is normally only used when
> the CPU overheats.

None of them is used on this system also

buildfarm ~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
i2c_i801                7372  0
i2c_core               19968  1 i2c_i801
serio_raw               7012  0
e752x_edac             11364  0
edac_mc                21424  1 e752x_edac
i6300esb                7096  0
tg3                    98116  0
sd_mod                 18432  4
uhci_hcd               21900  0
ehci_hcd               29896  0
usbcore               115652  5 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
ata_piix               13864  2
libata                 93172  1 ata_piix
scsi_mod              127304  2 sd_mod,libata

Also if needed, you can find .config at 
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/config.2.6.18

Cheers
-- 
S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/

Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates and an Apache in house!

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