From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QcHLX-0006zC-3B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:31:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4D741C01B; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703091C01B for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so2017595wwf.10 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:29:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=UXoJBwB1KigEdbHHwjT7xOX2e+6AeRyMH2Bm3AcLtIQ=; b=rjkBJfKPKfXHe9Fra8D9E36Y2uy6EFPDTgzTKHv6AZhOAttt+Y3+VouUIHITfI6k6l mxqBCl4LDk1q+F7E+Gh1Nt1AqKiY1AFQhc68hc5Fcs2YNhAauREarqMaZPgNc3m7izHh HGS67X6OVB5J5lX6CoLx7s3xjdWeFRU6rcZI8= Received: by 10.216.60.203 with SMTP id u53mr37716wec.96.1309440574051; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-19-196.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.19.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w10sm1144079weq.3.2011.06.30.06.29.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:29:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Peter Humphrey Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: kernel parameters Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:28:26 +0200 Message-ID: <2183641.Saez8PsWW2@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <201106301358.39866.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <201106271757.01209.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201106301358.39866.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e5e1722bf3932a94c3c2470b691d036a On Thursday 30 June 2011 13:58:39 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Monday 27 June 2011 18:53:31 Remy Blank wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Can anyone point me to the parameter concerned? I can't find > > > it with grep. > > > > Could it be CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP? > > Thanks to you and Alan. > > No, I don't think so, as there's none such in my kernel config (this > is 2.6.38, and none of the other distros have a version as recent > as this). The same applies to pcie_aspm. > > Meanwhile, I've resorted to switching things off in the BIOS, but as > the lockups are intermittent it's going to take a while to find > what's doing it. How about these then? # grep -i lockup .* .config:# CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR is not set .config:# CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR is not set -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com