netdev - Re: KVM induced panic on 2.6.38[2367] & 2.6.39

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Message-ID: <4DF21002.3040708@teksavvy.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:37:22 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
CC:	Brad Campbell <brad@...rfbargle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@...dora.be>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM induced panic on 2.6.38[2367] & 2.6.39

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
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