On Tuesday 11 March 2008 10:55:40 Jike Song wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Chr <chunkeey@web.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  ever since I moved to 2.6.25-rcY (Y should be between 2 and 5!).
> >  I've seen several, but really hard-to-catch instant freezes on my
> >  AMD64 Athlon X2 4200+ system...
>
> Here I guess 2.6.24 is fine for you?
Yes, 2.6.24(.3) is fine!

> >  Most of them happend in X.org so at first I thought it had something to
> > do with the NVIDIA module... BUT, one time it froze "a way before" the
> > module could get loaded...
> >
> >  ---
> >  SYSRQ-P revealed that the CPU were looping inside:
> >
> >  smp_64.c native_flush_tlb_others:
> >  assembler code:
> >  < 1ee:   f3 90                   pause
> >  < 1f0:   f6 45 00 03             testb  $0x3,0x0(%rbp)
> >  < 1f4:   75 f8                   jne    1ee
> > <native_flush_tlb_others+0x5f>
> >
> >  also known as: (in C)
> >
> >  while (!cpus_empty(f->flush_cpumask))
> >         cpu_relax();
> >
> >  So... has anyone a good idea what's happening here exactly? Or is there
> >  already another topic or even a patch available?
>
> Would you please attach your config file?  Do you have CONFIG_CPU_IDLE set?
(Attached). Yes, CONFIG_CPU_IDLE is enabled! I guess I should now disable it, 
try again and report back, right?! ;-) 

Regards,
	Chr.