linux-kernel - Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:32:52 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Ed Tomlinson <edt@....ca>
Cc:	Matthew <jackdachef@...il.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of
	32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)


* Ed Tomlinson <edt@....ca> wrote:

> Matthew is not alone with this problem.  I have it too.  Its not new 
> here.  Its been happening as long as I have had gentoo amd64 
> installed.  It can be hard to reproduce but eventually, when 32 bit 
> apps are used, my box bricks.  There is nothing in the logs (nor on a 
> serial console) - the box just freezes.
> 
> My kernel is _not_ tainted. [...]

ok, good. A series of questions:

- can you reproduce it from the VGA console?

- if yes, does booting with "nmi_watchdog=2 idle=poll" give you a 
  working NMI watchdog? (working NMI watchdog means the NMI counts 
  increase for all cores in /proc/interrupts).

if still 'yes', then try to reproduce the hard hang on the VGA text 
console - do you perhaps get an NMI backtrace printed within 1-2 minutes 
after the hard hang happens? If yes then take a photo of that or write 
it down.

	Ingo
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