Re: lockups

On Tuesday 25 May 2004 07:01 pm, Jason King wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> >On Tuesday 25 May 2004 12:40 am, Jason King wrote:
> >>John Baldwin wrote:
> >>>On Sunday 23 May 2004 12:30 am, Jason King wrote:
> >>>>John Baldwin wrote:
> >>>>>On Friday 14 May 2004 08:54 pm, Jason King wrote:
> >>>>>>ok i'm a dumbass... in my haste this morning, i commented out the
> >>>>>> wrong line in my config file, so when i tried disabling mixed mode,
> >>>>>> apic support wasn't even compiled in the kernel.  So to make extra
> >>>>>> sure, I went back and explicitly tried it with the 5.2.1-RELEASE cd
> >>>>>> (disabling apic worked, disabling mixed mode did not), so its really
> >>>>>> something related to apic support.  So next question, what can I do
> >>>>>> to track down the problem?  Any suggestions for resources to
> >>>>>> understand how the apic stuff works?  Might there be a way to grab
> >>>>>> the kernel messages even after a reboot since the lockups don't even
> >>>>>> my to drop to the debugger? Doing a boot -v generated a bunch of
> >>>>>> text that I couldn't read as it scrolled by too fast, and I'm
> >>>>>> wondering if it might possibly help shed some light as to what's
> >>>>>> going on...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Note that you can't disable mixed mode via a tunable on 5.2.1, so you
> >>>>>might want to retest disabling mixed mode.  However, the first steps
> >>>>> are to work on the non-ACPI case as that is easiest.  I'll need
> >>>>> 'mptable' output and dmesg output from a verbose boot with APIC
> >>>>> enabled and ACPI disabled if you can get that.  Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>>Unfortunately, booting with ACPI disabled and apic enabled still caused
> >>>>the system to hang.  So anytime apic is enabled, the system locks up.
> >>>>(i've tried just the kernel with no modules loaded as well as with the
> >>>>normal modules I use loaded, locks up, but in a different place).  I
> >>>> was able to pull off the output from a boot -v using a serial console.
> >>>>  I've attached that.  Hopefully that helps...
> >>>
> >>>Can you provide mptable output?
> >>
> >>Here is the mptable output.
> >
> >Hmm, your box has lots of issues. :-/  The $PIR table doesn't include
> > entries for several devices on PCI bus 0, and the mptable doesn't include
> > entries for almost all of your PCI devices.  I would first look for a
> > BIOS upgrade.
>
> Unfortunately, it has the latest BIOS on there (I tried updating it
> before posting my original question to try to eliminate that as a
> possibility).  Any suggestions on how to proceed?? The system does work
> with no issues under XP (possibly a way to gather some info from that?)

Does XP use any IRQ's higher than 15?

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