Re: 2.6.16.1 lost cpu, was: 2.6.16-rc5 'lost' cpu

[Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Ashok Raj wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 06:45:36PM +0200, jensmh@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> Oh well, seems like that CPU has trouble booting, per message below
> we seemed to start it, but processor didnt run startup code... Suspect its a 
> failing part probably..
> 
> > CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
> > CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
> > CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz stepping 09
> > Booting processor 2/6 eip 2000
> > CPU 2 irqstacks, hard=c04b8000 soft=c04b0000
> > Not responding.
> > Inquiring remote APIC #6...
> > ... APIC #6 ID: failed
> > ... APIC #6 VERSION: failed
> > ... APIC #6 SPIV: failed
> > CPU #6 not responding - cannot use it.

Ok i've seen that about 2years ago on a similar Xeon system, it was hard 
to reproduce as it only happened on the occassional boot i was thinking of 
making the processor startup delays longer but could never get it to 
reliably fail. The system is still running today.
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