Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:54:53 -0500 From: Jason King <jasonking@sbcglobal.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: lockups Message-ID: <40A56A5D.1070002@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <40A5632E.6070204@sbcglobal.net> References: <40A43E86.6040504@sbcglobal.net> <200405141308.02956.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <40A5632E.6070204@sbcglobal.net>
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Jason King wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > >> On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:35 pm, Jason King wrote: >> >> >>> I'm having some problems with -CURRENT locking up, I'm hoping maybe >>> someone will have some suggestions. >>> >>> Symptoms: >>> >>> (This is both on 5.2.1-CURRENT as well as booting off the 5.2.1-RELEASE >>> cdrom) >>> >>> During normal boot, kernel freezes before it even starts init. >>> Ctrl-Alt-Delete does not work, power button must be used to reboot. >>> >>> boot -v reveals 'Interrupt storm on "dc0"; throttling interrupt >>> source'. Thinking it might be a bad network card (though it works fine >>> in XP and worked fine when I had 5.1-RELEASE installed), I removed the >>> card, and I got the same error, just on a different device (pcm0). >>> >> >> >> Ok, this would explain the slow boot w/o ACPI as well if interrupts >> are not routed correctly. Does the machine boot ok if you do 'set >> hint.apic.0.disabled=1' from the boot loader? >> >> >> > That worked (thanks). Going further, I've found that just doing 'set > hw.apic.mixed_mode=0' at the boot loader without changing any other > settings also prevents the lockups. > > Based on this, I have a few more questions. The biggest one is is > there anything else that can be done to further narrow down the > cause? I've read the blurb in src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES, and it > suggests that the kernel is possibly getting incorrect information > (i.e. enabling mixed mode when it shouldn't). Is there a > straightforward way to determine what information the kernel is using? > Is it necessairly a bad thing that mixed mode has to be disabled? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 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...home | help
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