Re: What are the general causes of frozen system?

[Larry Finger]

thockin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > What should I consider as a cause of the freeze? I have reviewed the 
> > code and do not find any obvious out-of-bounds memory references. I have 
> > tried various 'printk' statements, but none of them in the bottom-half 
> > interrupt routine make it to the logs. Are there any tricks that I 
> > should try?
>
>
> Look for lock-related deadlocks.  Try turning on the nmi watchdog

Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, adding either 
nmi_watchdog=1 or 2 makes my machine lockup in booting - just after ACPI 
is initialized.
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