Interrupt storm

Andre Guibert de Bruet andy at siliconlandmark.com
Thu Mar 31 14:43:41 PST 2005


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Nate Lawson wrote:

> Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dan Cojocar wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:53:48 -0500 (EST), Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dan Cojocar wrote:
>>>>> I tried running GENERIC and i get the following lor and watchdog
>>>>> timeout, no interrupt storms:
>>>>>   Here is the full dmesg: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/dmesg.txt.generic
>>>>>   I tried also my kernel with apic, i don't get interrupt storms but
>>>>> i get watchdog timeout message just like with GENERIC.
>>>>> Here is the full dmesg: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/dmesg.txt.apic
>>>>>   And finally i tried my kernel without apic and without acpi, it's
>>>>> running just fine, no interrupt storms, no watchdog timeout, but i
>>>>> don't have acpi :(, here is the final
>>>>> dmesg: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/dmesg.txt.noacpi.
>>>> 
>>>> It looks like your motherboard's DSDT is doing something hokey. I would
>>>> complain to the board manufacturer about this. For the timebeing, you can
>>>> dump the DSDT into ASL format, modify it, compile it back to DSDT and 
>>>> load
>>>> a proper version on system startup. If this is your first time, you
>>>> probably want to run "acpidump -d > my.asl" and make the resulting file
>>>> available somewhere.
>>>> 
>>>> Would you also mind sharing the kernel config file that was used to build
>>>> the kernel that gaves you the mother of all interrupt parties?
>>>> 
>>>    Here is my asl: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/my.asl
>>>    And here is my kernel config: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/FREE
>
> Is this on 5.x?  There's a quirk for a broken APIC override for the timer 
> interrupt for NVIDIA chipsets but I don't think it's been MFCd yet.

The uname header in http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/dmesg.txt.noacpi claims it 
is 6-CURRENT.

Andy

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