SMP + Hyperthreading / Asus PCDL Deluxe / Kernel 2.4.x 2.6.x / Crash/Freeze

From: Richard Browning
Date: Wed Mar 10 2004 - 07:33:21 EST

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**** SUMMARY
Enabling hyperthreading on Asus PCDL Deluxe motherboard w/ 2xP4Xeon causes
system freeze in short order.

**** DESCRIPTION
I have an Asus PCDL Deluxe P4Xeon motherboard which has a north/southbridge
combination allowing system memory to run at 533MHz . The motherboard has the
usual Asus onboard gigabit ethernet, AD1985 audio, Intel and Promise SATA
controllers, firewire. All are enabled and operate. I am running dual 2.8GHz
P4 Xeons.

When hyperthreading is disabled the system is perfectly stable and usable. No
operating artefacts seem to occur and SMP appears to workcorrectly.

However when hyperthreading is enabled, the system operates for a brief period
(enough for KDE to boot, for example) before halting. When operating from the
command line it is usual to see a Machine Check Exception error immediately
prior to system failure.

**** KEYWORDS
SMP Hyperthreading Asus Xeon Freeze Crash

**** KERNELS
2.4.2x 2.6.x

**** OOPS
Not available

**** CATALYST
Enable hyperthreading

**** ENVIRONMENT
Asus PCDL Deluxe motherboard
(http://usa.asus.com/products/server/srv-mb/pc-dl/overview.HTM)

**** SOFTWARE
Gnu C 3.3.2
Gnu make 3.80
util-linux 2.12
mount 2.12
module-init-tools 0.9.15-pre4
e2fsprogs 1.34
Linux C Library 2.3.2
Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.2
Procps 3.1.15
Net-tools 1.60
Kbd 1.08
Sh-utils 5.0.91
Modules Loaded fglrx eeprom i2c_isa lm75 i2c_i801 i2c_algo_bit i2c_dev
i2c_sensor i2c_core

**** PROCESSOR
NOTE Hyperthreading disabled
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 2807.537
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips : 5537.79

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 2807.537
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips : 5603.32

**** MODULES
fglrx 208932 7 - Live 0xe09d5000
eeprom 11656 0 - Live 0xe08c9000
i2c_isa 6144 0 - Live 0xe08b3000
lm75 11908 0 - Live 0xe08c0000
i2c_i801 12176 0 - Live 0xe089f000
i2c_algo_bit 13832 0 - Live 0xe08bb000
i2c_dev 14976 0 - Live 0xe08b6000
i2c_sensor 7168 2 eeprom,lm75, Live 0xe08a3000
i2c_core 27524 7 eeprom,i2c_isa,lm75,i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_dev,i2c_sensor,
Live 0xe08a8000

**** DRIVER AND HARDWARE
(IOPORTS)
0000-001f : dma1
0020-0021 : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-0077 : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00a1 : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : libata
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0378-037a : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
0500-051f : 0000:00:1f.3
0500-050f : i801-smbus
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
9000-9fff : PCI Bus #01
9000-90ff : 0000:01:00.0
a000-afff : PCI Bus #02
a000-a01f : 0000:02:01.0
a000-a01f : e1000
b000-b01f : 0000:00:1d.0
b000-b01f : uhci_hcd
b400-b41f : 0000:00:1d.1
b400-b41f : uhci_hcd
b800-b81f : 0000:00:1d.2
b800-b81f : uhci_hcd
bc00-bc1f : 0000:00:1d.3
bc00-bc1f : uhci_hcd
d800-d8ff : 0000:00:1f.5
dc00-dc3f : 0000:00:1f.5
f000-f00f : 0000:00:1f.2
f000-f00f : libata

(IOMEM)
00000000-0009f7ff : System RAM
0009f800-0009ffff : reserved
000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
000d0000-000d0fff : Extension ROM
000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
00100000-1ffeffff : System RAM
00100000-0036a323 : Kernel code
0036a324-00492e7f : Kernel data
1fff0000-1fff2fff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
1fff3000-1fffffff : ACPI Tables
e0000000-e7ffffff : 0000:00:00.0
e8000000-f7ffffff : PCI Bus #01
e8000000-efffffff : 0000:01:00.0
f0000000-f7ffffff : 0000:01:00.1
f8000000-f9ffffff : PCI Bus #01
f9000000-f900ffff : 0000:01:00.0
f9010000-f901ffff : 0000:01:00.1
fa000000-fa0fffff : PCI Bus #02
fa000000-fa01ffff : 0000:02:01.0
fa000000-fa01ffff : e1000
fa100000-fa103fff : 0000:03:03.0
fa104000-fa1047ff : 0000:03:03.0
fa104000-fa1047ff : ohci1394
fa200000-fa2003ff : 0000:00:1d.7
fa200000-fa2003ff : ehci_hcd
fa201000-fa2011ff : 0000:00:1f.5
fa201000-fa2011ff : Intel ICH5 - AC'97
fa202000-fa2020ff : 0000:00:1f.5
fa202000-fa2020ff : Intel ICH5 - Controller
fec00000-ffffffff : reserved

**** PCI
(lspci not available; here output of cat /proc/bus/pci/devices)
0000 80862578 0 e0000008 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 08000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 agpgart-intel
0008 80862579 0 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
0018 8086257b 0 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
00e8 808624d2 10 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0000b001 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000020 00000000
00000000 uhci_hcd
00e9 808624d4 13 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0000b401 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000020 00000000
00000000 uhci_hcd
00ea 808624d7 12 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0000b801 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000020 00000000
00000000 uhci_hcd
00eb 808624de 10 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0000bc01 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000020 00000000
00000000 uhci_hcd
00ef 808624dd 17 fa200000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 ehci_hcd
00f0 8086244e 0 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
00f8 808624d0 0 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
00fa 808624d1 12 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0000f001 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000010 00000000
00000000 ata_piix
00fb 808624d3 11 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000501 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000020 00000000
00000000 i801 smbus
00fd 808624d5 11 0000d801 0000dc01 fa201000
fa202000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000100
00000040 00000200 00000100 00000000 00000000
00000000 Intel ICH
0100 10024e48 10 e8000008 00009001 f9000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 08000000
00000100 00010000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00020000
0101 10024e68 0 f0000008 f9010000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 08000000
00010000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
0208 80861019 12 fa000000 00000000 0000a001
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00020000
00000000 00000020 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 e1000
0318 104c8023 14 fa104000 fa100000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000800
00004000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 ohci1394

**** SCSI
/proc/scsi/scsi not available
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