Re: 2.3.99-pre3 hangs on netfinity 5500

From: Manfred Spraul (manfreds@colorfullife.com)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 14:56:34 EST

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"Peter De Schrijver (mind)" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having strange lookups on an IBM netfinity 5500 using kernel version
> 2.3.99pre-3 (the problem exists at least since 2.3.50). The machine freezes
> suddenly. The behaviour seems independant of load or network traffic.
> Any idea how I could diagnose this problem ?
>
I had a similar problem:
when I boot with one cpu, apic enabled, then I loose interrupts, and the
kernel locks after a few seconds.

Could you try to modify the smp_affinity_masks?

echo 1 > /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity_mask

-- Manfred

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