Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

[Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:04:59AM +0200, Philip Lawatsch wrote:

> I do have a very strange problem:
> 
> If I memset a ~1meg buffer some thousand times (in the userspace) it
> will hardlock my machine.
> 
> I've been using 2.6.12-rc1 and also a lot of other kernels (2.6.9,
> 2.6.11). I've tried it both using a 32 bit kernel and a 64 bit kernel.
> When running on the 32 bit kernel the machine hardlocks after about
> 15000 iterations, on a 64 bit kernel the machine hardlocks after about
> 5000 (the 64 bit system has nearly no background jobs running).
> 
> I've been running memcheck for several hours now but nothing did show up.
> 
> 
> I've got an Asus A8N-SLI board with 2 gigs of memory and an AMD 3500+ CPU.
> 
> The 64 bit kernel was compiled using gcc 3.4.3 and the 32 bit kernel
> using 3.3.5.
[...]

> powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09e)
> powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
> powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x8 (1350 mV)
> powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV)
> powernow-k8:    3 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
> cpu_init done, current fid 0xe, vid 0x6

Just a thought: does deactivating cpufreq change anything ?

I haven't tested yet your program, but on my Asus K8NE-Deluxe very
strange things happen if cpufreq/powernow is activated *and* 
the cpu frequency is changed...

Stelian.
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