Re: [PATCH] Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found

[Craig Bradney]

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 16:10, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > It is possible :-).  Here is a completly untested patch.
> > 
> > [PATCH] fix lockups with APIC support on nForce2
> 
> 
> I tried it (applied pacth and *enabled* CPU disconnect in bios) and it 
> works! Good work. Nevertheless, it is no real fix, just a work-around. 
> Perhaps somone from nvidia should comment on this...or some APIC guru 
> needs to take a look into the code.

So.. if you find long term stability with this.. then maybe it relates
to disconnect but perhaps is just a method of increasing the time
between crashes and the patch is a correct workaround? But why isnt it a
"real" fix if the timer IRQ is not set up correctly without?

I would also like an nvidia or apic opinion on this one.

Craig

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