Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:25:54 +0100 (CET)
From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
To: Richard Browning <richard@redline.org.uk>
cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
       Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
       Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>,
       <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: ANYONE? Re: SMP + Hyperthreading / Asus PCDL Deluxe / Kernel
 2.4.x 2.6.x / Crash/Freeze
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Richard Browning wrote:

> As I suggested in the original post, the problem can be triggered simply by
> executing ./configure - the kernel corrupts when gcc does its thing. I can
> boot into KDE, run Enemy Territory, execute a Java compile, and so on. But
> the thing absolutely and most definitely able to upset the cart is to execute
> gcc.

Aha! A single thread? A specific asm insn? Is gcc --version enough to kill
the machine? Or on smth like
int main(void)
{return 0;}
gcc -E; gcc -S; gcc -c; ld? Step-by-step with gdb (hopefully, gdb doesn't
have this insn...). NMI watchdog?

Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski


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