5.3-RELEASE: SMP: system clock has died

Tue Jan 11 05:51:44 PST 2005

Stephane Raimbault schrieb:

> I have an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard with dual P2 400MHz CPU's.  I have 
> compiled the SMP kernel and noticed that something is not right.  In 
> "top" the CPU values indicate 0% across the board, even idle!
>
> last pid:  9462;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00    up 2+18:57:30  
> 13:11:47
> 14 processes:  1 running, 13 sleeping
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  
> 0.0% idle
> Mem: 5232K Active, 115M Inact, 59M Wired, 60M Buf, 315M Free
> Swap: 999M Total, 999M Free
>
>
> Also, when I run systat and go to the vmstat page I get this error:
>
> The alternate system clock has died!
>         Reverting to ``pigs'' display.
>
> There seems to be no errors in /var/log/messages.
>
> here is my /var/run/dmesg.boot file
>
> sol# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot
> Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>       The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Mon Dec 27 17:45:44 MST 2004
>   root at sol.integer8.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP
> MPTable: <OEM00000 PROD00000000>
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (400.91-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x652  Stepping = 2
>
> Features=0x183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> 
>
> real memory  = 536858624 (511 MB)
> avail memory = 515788800 (491 MB)
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  1
> cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  0
> ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0
> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
> ACPI disabled by blacklist.  Contact your BIOS vendor.
> npx0: [FAST]
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on 
> motherboard
> pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 7 Entries> on motherboard
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 
> 0xe4000000-0xe7ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
> pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 
> 0xb800-0xb80f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 4.1 on pci0
> ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
> ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
> uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xb400-0xb41f 
> irq 11 at device 4.2 on pci0
> uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> piix0: <PIIX Timecounter> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0
> Timecounter "PIIX" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 0
> ahc0: <Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 
> 0xe1800000-0xe1800fff irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0
> ahc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 9.0 (no driver attached)
> fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xa800-0xa83f mem 
> 0xdf800000-0xdf8fffff,0xe0000000-0xe0000fff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0
> miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
> inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:90:27:8c:08:17
> cpu0 on motherboard
> cpu1 on motherboard
> orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc8000-0xcd7ff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
> pmtimer0 on isa0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on 
> isa0
> fdc0: [FAST]
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
> ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
> ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x100>
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 16550A, console
> sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
> sio1: type 16550A
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> ata0-master: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE 
> status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED>
> acd0: CDROM <SANYO CRD-254P/1.06> at ata0-master BIOSPIO
> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <SEAGATE ST39140LW 1483> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <SEAGATE ST39140LW 1483> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da1: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> da2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> da2: <SEAGATE ST39140LW 1483> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da2: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged 
> Queueing Enabled
> da2: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> sol#
>
>
>
> What is happening?  This is a test box I have here so I can do some 
> testing as necessary.
>
> Thank you,
> Stephane.
>
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Sorry, my last response went t othe wrong list.

I also see this weird message on a ASUS CUR-DLS based SMP system with 
two PIII/1GHz CPUs. Very often, when
SMP is active (with or without ACPI), typing 'systat -vmstat 1' I get 
the above mentioned error message. In very, very
rare cases this occurs also under UP conditions, but in nearly 50% of 
all cases under SMP conditions. As I said, either with
or without ACPI enabled.
In the past I reported about a strange behaviour of FreeBSD 5.3 (I 
utilize FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE on this box). SMP is not working. I was told 
this is possibly due a hardware error.