From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261231AbVFASum (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:50:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261230AbVFAStn (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:49:43 -0400 Received: from mout.perfora.net ([217.160.230.41]:44281 "EHLO mout.perfora.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261544AbVFASeH (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:34:07 -0400 Subject: Re: Tyan Opteron boards and problems with parallel ports (badpmd) From: Christopher Warner To: "Sergey S. Kostyliov" Cc: Joel Jaeggli , Christopher Warner , "Peter J. Stieber" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bill Davidsen , admin@list.net.ru In-Reply-To: <200506011322.42782.rathamahata@ehouse.ru> References: <3174569B9743D511922F00A0C943142309F815A6@TYANWEB> <1117190965.13932.36.camel@sabrina> <200506011316.29771.rathamahata@ehouse.ru> <200506011322.42782.rathamahata@ehouse.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:51:33 -0400 Message-Id: <1117633893.22578.1.camel@sabrina> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: perfora.net abuse@perfora.net login:d2cbd72fb1ab4860f78cabc62f71ec31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > What we need is to try and single out the variables that are causing the > > > badpmd's. Also the more people who report badpmd's with Andi Kleen's > > > intial patch the better. Especially on different archs; would also be > > > good. So far from lkml i'm only seeing Tyan S28* boards as of recent. > > We have run into different problem (for our different from S28*arch) > > for the box which had had badpmd issues with v2.6.11 (see: > > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/May/6369.html) > Oops, wrong link, right one is: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/11/42 > > > > > with 2.6.12-rc5 we are always getting dozens of user-space segfaults: > > > > grep[25377]: segfault at 0000000000014aa0 rip 00002aaaaad37130 rsp 00007fffffb13cb8 error4 > > grep[29940]: segfault at 0000000000014aa0 rip 00002aaaaad37130 rsp 00007fffff913428 error4 > > sed[5849] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffffb231d0 error:0 > > sed[27437] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7ffffff248c0 error:0 > > sed[27473] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffff923740 error:0 > > sed[27472] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffff923740 error:0 > > sed[28434] general protection rip:406965 rsp:7fffffb23f10 error:0 > > grep[32583]: segfault at 0000000000014aa0 rip 00002aaaaad37130 rsp 00007fffffd13b58 error4 > > sed[9074] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffffb248a0 error:0 > > sed[9546] general protection rip:406965 rsp:7fffffb23cc0 error:0 > > sed[4331] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffff922fb0 error:0 > > sed[17906] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffffd24b30 error:0 > > sed[17934] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffffd243a0 error:0 > > sed[19555] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7fffff924ad0 error:0 > > sed[20453] general protection rip:40bac5 rsp:7ffffff23010 error:0 > > > > during the build of mysql. > > > > There also was an oops with v2.6.12-rc3 for the same box: > > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/May/6369.html > > > > Box passed two iterations of memtest86 (unfortunately this > > is a production box, so we can't wait for days). > > > Do you have any mobo/chipset information and are those amd64's opterons? Thanks, Christopher Warner