Fw: Trouble with i386 KDB current and 2.6.7
Kevin Stansell
stanselk at us.ibm.com
Wed Jun 23 05:47:07 PDT 2004
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 15:39, Keith Owens wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:54:43 -0700,
> > keith <kmannth at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >linux 2.6.7-bk4
> > >kdb-v4.4-2.6.7-common-1
> > >kdb-v4.4-2.6.7-i386-1
> > >
> > >My issue is as follows...
> > > If I don't enable kdb everything works fine. When I enable and boot
> > >with KDB I fall into kdb when I bring the secondary cpus online. KDB
> > >claims it was entered via an NMI. Without kdb there are no nmis being
> > >registered by the system.
> >
> > This debug patch should get you up and running, and tell you where the
> > nmi is coming from. Untested.
>
> Ok booted without kdb and I did not see that zone alignment error. Has
> kdb ran on a numa i386 system before? It looks to be tinkering with the
> VM somehow. Tomorrow I'll try disabling numa and seeing if things work.
As a datapoint: I have ran KDB (with the 2.4 kernel) on a summit box in
the past with no problems.
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