Bug 3040

Summary:	kernel blocking whit HT and SMP actived if don't append acpi=ht and low performance
Product:	ACPI	Reporter:	Peppe (kb8)
Component:	BIOS	Assignee:	Zhu Yi (yi.zhu)
Status:	REJECTED DUPLICATE
Severity:	high
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.7	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Peppe 2004-07-09 14:47:50 UTC

Distribution: Slackware 10.0

Hardware Environment: Intel Motherboard D865PERL - CPU Pentium 4-HT 2,6GHz with
bus at 800MHz - HD SATA Samsung 80GB

Software Environment:
Problem Description: If i don't append to LILO the "acpi=ht" string the kernel
blocked with this or others message:

Unable to handle kernel NULL point deference<1>invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1

Others message are attached in jpg immages in this post!!!
Here:
http://www.giupenni.it/bug/msg1.jpg <--this immage is not ok
http://www.giupenni.it/bug/msg2.jpg
http://www.giupenni.it/bug/msg3.jpg
http://www.giupenni.it/bug/msg4.jpg

In the kernel .config the acpi support in actived but if i don't append acpi=ht
it blocked!!!

Moreover the sistem performance with HT and SMP actived (with acpi=ht) are very
low!!!

Moreover i have attached here my .config and dmesg of the kernel with acpi=ht
append!!!
Here:
http://www.giupenni.it/bug/config
http://www.giupenni.it/bug/bootOK.txt

Best regard,
Peppe!!!

Steps to reproduce:

Comment 1 Zhu Yi 2004-07-11 19:46:50 UTC

This is a duplicated bug with 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125841

Comment 2 Len Brown 2004-08-13 21:51:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2941 ***