Fw: Trouble with i386 KDB current and 2.6.7

[keith]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 05:47, Kevin Stansell wrote:
> > 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.
> 

Do you know if the CONFIG_NUMA options were set?  

Keith 

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