Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

cheuche+lkml@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:49:50AM +0100, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
>
> > So gals and guys, try disabling cpu disconnect in bios and see whether 
> > aopic now runs stable.
>
> Yes that fix it. Well time will tell but I cannot make it crash with
> hdparm -tT or cat /dev/hda so far. I'm dumping hda to /dev/null right
> now.
>
> After testing to make it crash, I used athcool to reenable CPU
> disconnect, and guess what, test after that just crashed the box.
> You found the problem, congratulations.

:-)

Isn't it possible to ad athcool's code into the kernel, maybe into the 
pm section or even make it an kernel option. It seems to be a nice 
workaround for the time-being.

Prakash

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