RE: 2.5.44 fs corruption

["Chris Newland" <chris.newland@emorphia.com>]

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Hi Erik,

Does your motherboard use the 760MPX chipset?

I used to get DMA related lockups on my MSI K7D-Master (760MPX, Dual 1900+)
until I heard about the erratum in the 768 southbridge (see attached mail).
>From your dmesg it looks like you are using a USB trackball. Switching from
USB to PS2 mouse fixed the problem for me.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of erik@debill.org
> Sent: 22 October 2002 23:08
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: 2.5.44 fs corruption
>
>
> I have a happy little dual athlon desktop (Athlon MP1600+ processors -
> should be rated for SMP use, no funny stuff), which has been running
> nicely for months.  I installed 2.5.44 on it last night, and it seemed
> to work fine.
>
> This morning when I went to use it I was greeted by a screen full of
> "eth0: transmit timed out" (eth0 being an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100
> using the eepro100 driver).  Trying to run commands (like sudo, dmesg,
> ping) I got a lot of "unable to execute binary file foo" and IDE
> errors complaining about attempts to read past the end of the device.
> I was unable to do a graceful reboot, and had to hit the reset button.
>
> Upon reboot my root fs (ext2 under 2.4, but I loaded ext3 under
> 2.5...) came up corrupted.  Fortunately it didn't seem to hit anything
> important (I'll be reinstalling shortly).  None of the other
> filesystems (all reiserfs or NFS) had problems.
>
> After repairing the fs I've tried a couple reboots into 2.5.44 to see
> if corruption happens immediately - with no luck.  Looks like
> something corrupted kernel memory overnight, and ended up stepping on
> my filesystem along the way.
>
> I've got an nVidia video card, but I don't use the binary only module.
> 2.4.18 actually thinks it finds a Radeon.
>
> dmesg from one of the later boots and .config included below.
>
>
> Erik

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From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org on behalf of Jan Kasprzak
[kas@informatics.muni.cz]
Sent: 25 September 2002 14:24
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Hahn; kernel@street-vision.com; Petr Konecny; Bruno A. Crespo;
Denis Vlasenko; Alan Cox
Subject: AMD 768 erratum 10 (solved: AMD 760MPX DMA lockup)

	Hello, all!

two weeks ago I've posted to the LKML the following message:

[...]
: my dual athlon box is unstable in some situations. I can consistently
: lock it up by running the following code:
: 
: fd = open("/dev/hda3", O_RDWR);
: for (i=0; i<1024*1024; i++) {
:         read(fd, buffer, 8192);
:         lseek(fd, -8192, SEEK_CUR);
:         write(fd, buffer, 8192);
: }
[...]

	I think I have been hit by AMD 768 southbridge erratum number 10.
After plugging in the PS/2 mouse, the server is able to run 10 iterations
of bonnie++ without any problem (w/o PS/2 mouse it locks up in first
or second iterations).

	I want to ask everyone who replied to me that the above code
works for him on the 760MPX-based system to re-run the above code
(or run bonnie++ benchmark several times in a loop), but _without_
the PS/2 mouse connected?

	Since this is an official AMD errata, we should have a work-around
for this, or at least the big fat warning during boot, when the 768
southbridge is detected - something like the following:

WARNING: Using the system with AMD 768 southbridge without the PS/2
WARNING: mouse plugged in can cause instabilities. See the AMD 768 erratum #10

	The AMD 768 Revision Guide is at the following URL:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/24472.pdf

the erratum #10 is described on page 7 (pstotext output, manually edited):

: 10	Multiprocessor System May Hang While in FULL APIC Mode
: 	and IOAPIC Interrupt is Masked
: 
: Products Affected. B1, B2
: 
: Normal Specified Operation. The AMD-768 peripheral bus controller is
: designed to support FULL APIC mode in multiprocessor systems for system
: management events. If an interrupt is masked in the APIC controller of
: the AMD-768, then the corresponding interrupt message should not be
: sent to the processor via the 3-wire APIC bus.
: 
: Non-conformance. The AMD-768 peripheral bus controller will send an
: interrupt message via the 3-wire APIC bus regardless if the interrupt
: is masked or not.
: 
: Potential Effect on System. Since the processor had previously masked
: the APIC interrupt, it is not expecting to receive future APIC messages
: for the masked interrupt. The APIC controller will continuously send
: the interrupt message via the 3-wire bus until a processor accepts the
: message, causing the system to hang.
: 
: A system hang has been observed when executing a server shutdown
: command in Novell Netware versions 5.0 or 5.1 while using a serial
: mouse. During the server shutdown sequence, software writes an invalid
: CPU ID to the IOAPIC redirection table, and the system does not
: complete the shutdown.
: 
: Note: No failure has been observed when using a PS/2 mouse.
: 
: Suggested Workaround. None.
: 
: Resolution Status: No fix planned.


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