From: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.co.intel.com>
Organization: Intel
To: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@hotmail.com>, mgross@linux.co.intel.com
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.4 - APIC Errors
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:45:54 -0800
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On Tuesday 30 March 2004 10:42, Mark Gross wrote:
> You stinker ;)
>
> I replied to your email off list cuz I used to work with Al about 100 years
> ago in Utica NY.
>
> I did trace the source of the kprint to the apic code. 
> arch/i386/kernel/apic.c; smp_error_interrupt 0x40 is APIC error bit 6
> "Illegal register addres" from the code comments.
>
> The interrupt handler gets installed through some tricky BS code, see
> include/asm-i386/mach-arch/entry_arch.h using a macro BUILD_INTERRUPT that
> insalls the error_interrupt by prefixing the "smp_" at compile time.
>
> I'd say something strange is going on with some driver touching the APIC,
> but I'm no expert.

ummm, thats "	   6: Received illegal vector "  You have noise on your hardware.

--mgross

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