Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-27 Thread Benjamin Monate
Hi, I just patched my kernel and here are my results: > systems. Please apply and give me the "IRQ to pin mappings:" part of the > bootstrap log. I'm pretty confident we get everything fine there, but > just in case... 0000 IRQ to pin mappings: IRQ0 -> 0:2 IRQ1 -> 0:1 IRQ3 -> 0:3 IRQ4

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-23 Thread Benjamin Monate
Dans son message du Thu 23 November, Maciej W. Rozycki ecrit : > Hmm, your BIOS reports the timer IRQ is directly connected... > > Int: type 0, pol 3, trig 3, bus 2, IRQ 09, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 09 > This is weird for an ISA IRQ. Remember that I have TWO PCI buses and one ISA Bus. > > > ENABLI

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-22 Thread Benjamin Monate
Dans son message du Tue 21 November, Maciej W. Rozycki ecrit : > But this message is printed when a workaround for certain early SMP EISA > boards gets activated. You shouldn't normally get it for anything newer > than P5/66 unless your MP-table is broken. Can you send me a dump of your > MP-t

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-21 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Benjamin Monate About the 8254, the kernel log contains : > > Nov 20 17:15:15 pc8-118 kernel: MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer > not connected to IO-AP > IC > Nov 20 17:15:15 pc8-118 kernel: ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) >

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-21 Thread Benjamin Monate
> I guess not -- the timer interrupt and the NMI use different I/O APIC > inputs. If both are stuck, it's probably 8254 that gets reprogrammed. I > suppose XFree86 might be at fault -- does it happen with the NMI watchdog > disabled, either? Yes. I just enabled the nmi watchdog to try to debug

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-21 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > a lock of the PCI bus (as SCSI and NIC are still working). Only the > > timer interrupts and NMI seem to be stuck : can a driver cause > > something so "lowlevel" ? > > Something stopping the timers on the APIC I guess. But quite what or how I > don't kno

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-20 Thread Alan Cox
> a lock of the PCI bus (as SCSI and NIC are still working). Only the > timer interrupts and NMI seem to be stuck : can a driver cause > something so "lowlevel" ? Something stopping the timers on the APIC I guess. But quite what or how I don't know - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-20 Thread Benjamin Monate
Dans son message du Mon 20 November, Fort David ecrit : > > Further investigations showed that the problem will occur only when > > Xfree 4.0.1 is running with an smp kenel . Xfree 3.3.6 is ok. Could this > > be a bug in X ? I thought that the kernel should prevent such a bug > > from locking th

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-20 Thread Fort David
"Benjamin Monate > In his message of Sat 18 November, Andrew Morton writes : > > Try booting with the `noapic' option. Looks like your APIC > > is getting itself unprogrammed. Check that you're not > > overclocked and not over temperature. > > Booting with noapic did not improve anything. > The

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-20 Thread Benjamin Monate
In his message of Sat 18 November, Andrew Morton writes : > Try booting with the `noapic' option. Looks like your APIC > is getting itself unprogrammed. Check that you're not > overclocked and not over temperature. Booting with noapic did not improve anything. The processor is not supposed to