Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261812AbUCXU1r (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:27:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261682AbUCXU1r (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:27:47 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:26001 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261832AbUCXU1i (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:27:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:27:59 -0300 From: Marcelo Tosatti To: Chris Stromsoe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Maciej W. Rozycki" , mikpe@csd.uu.se Subject: Re: apic errors and looping with 2.4, none with 2.2 (supermicro/serverworks LE chipset) Message-ID: <20040324212759.GD6572@logos.cnet> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3598 Lines: 77 Chris, The least I know is that similar IOAPIC errors have been seen due to BIOS/hardware misconfigurations. Maybe Maciej or Mikael have more clue of what might be happening. On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:50:32AM -0800, Chris Stromsoe wrote: > I've rebooted with noapic and nolapic and the machine seemed to be stable > for a while. Then I got: > > Mar 24 00:27:08 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 00(02) > Mar 24 00:27:08 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 00(02) > Mar 24 00:27:08 dahlia kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should never happen. > Mar 24 00:27:13 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(08) > Mar 24 00:27:13 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(08) > Mar 24 00:28:07 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 08(02) > Mar 24 00:28:07 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(02) > Mar 24 00:28:07 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(08) > Mar 24 00:28:07 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(02) > Mar 24 00:28:07 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(0a) > > I added nosmp to the lilo append line and rebooted. > > noapic, nolapic, and nosmp seems to be stable. I haven't had anything > logged in the last 2 hours. Are there known APIC or SMP problems with > serverworks LE chipsets or supermicro motherboards and 2.4? What are the > steps to troubleshooting an APIC problem? > > > -Chris > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Chris Stromsoe wrote: > > > I have one machine that won't run 2.4. As soon as a 2.4 kernel boots, it > > starts throwing APIC errors. > > > > The machine is a dual CPU pIII 933MHz system with 512Mb ram on a > > SuperMicro motherboard, either a P3TDLR or a 370DLR, with the ServerWorks > > LE chipset. I'm booting using lilo with append="noapic". > > > > As soon as I boot into a 2.4 kernel, I start getting APIC errors on both > > CPUs. Varying combinations of: > > > > Mar 23 00:40:45 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(08) > > Mar 23 00:40:45 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 01(08) > > Mar 23 00:45:45 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 08(08) > > Mar 23 00:45:45 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(08) > > Mar 23 00:58:27 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(01) > > Mar 23 00:58:27 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 08(02) > > Mar 23 01:04:54 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(02) > > Mar 23 01:04:54 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 01(02) > > Mar 23 01:05:46 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(08) > > Mar 23 01:05:46 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(08) > > Mar 23 01:08:37 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 08(02) > > Mar 23 01:08:37 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(02) > > Mar 23 01:11:04 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(02) > > Mar 23 01:11:04 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(0a) > > Mar 23 01:11:04 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(08) > > Mar 23 01:25:45 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 08(08) > > Mar 23 01:25:45 dahlia kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 0a(08) > > > > After a few hours of uptime, the box stops responding to keyboard input. > > It begins printing the above messages to console over and over. I have > > several other identical machines that I received in the same batch that > > run 2.4 without any problems (though they do seem to require "noapic"). > > > > It runs fine with 2.2 and is running 2.2.26 right now. > > > > The machine is not in production use and can be used to test. Any ideas > > for what I should look at? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/