Re: ANYONE? Re: SMP + Hyperthreading / Asus PCDL Deluxe / Kernel2.4.x 2.6.x / Crash/Freeze

From: Guennadi Liakhovetski
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 02:28:41 EST


On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Richard Browning wrote:

> As I suggested in the original post, the problem can be triggered simply by
> executing ./configure - the kernel corrupts when gcc does its thing. I can
> boot into KDE, run Enemy Territory, execute a Java compile, and so on. But
> the thing absolutely and most definitely able to upset the cart is to execute
> gcc.

Aha! A single thread? A specific asm insn? Is gcc --version enough to kill
the machine? Or on smth like
int main(void)
{return 0;}
gcc -E; gcc -S; gcc -c; ld? Step-by-step with gdb (hopefully, gdb doesn't
have this insn...). NMI watchdog?

Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski


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