Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:12:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:12:49 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:24337 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:12:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:20:00 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: William Lee Irwin III cc: Rusty Russell , "Martin J. Bligh" , , Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.5.63: ESR killed my box! In-Reply-To: <20030226072727.GO10411@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 25 On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > In message mbligh wrote: > >> I put an esr_disable flag in there a while back ... does that workaround it? > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:14:42PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Yes. Hmm. Wonder if that helps my SMP wierness, too. > > It shouldn't be set on anything but NUMA-Q and "bigsmp". Hmm.. Why is it right on those, but not on normal machines? The APIC is the same, and if the big machines need it, apparently at least _one_ small machine needs it too.. Also, if we find that the ESR value was non-zero, it sounds a bit stupid to enable error delivery at bootup. We already know there was an error, we don't need to be told. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/