Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754759AbXIQNIT (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:08:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753586AbXIQNIJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:08:09 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:25409 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753518AbXIQNIH (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:08:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=VVTV+hGRUhS/T/b2lY55Vek0kkR+DFWioMF+dRW0VwOeFLxMDK0x7gMv0roZ4mj1tSOs5dMaUt2Z2Un/5cgj+9yPUgyOkNw7LbXwHfnamESw0uVtcA7GpA3qt1iTio3LqwmKav9T/aFu91a3QDN/P/iOMLoExa4EugDCv+grYvg= Subject: Re: 2.6.22.1: Enabling IO-APIC = APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) From: Konstantin Sharlaimov Reply-To: konstantin.sharlaimov@gmail.com To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:07:56 +1100 Message-Id: <1190034476.8152.8.camel@traveler> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3431 Lines: 92 I am experiencing the similar problem on my Acer Aspire 5000 laptop - once in a while a bunch of "APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)" messages are showing up in dmesg. After few experiments and a lot of googling, I identified a cause - it was my built-in wireless card! Disabling IO-APIC helped, besides a single "Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7" message while booting up there was nothing unusual. A did some further experiments on various hardware and from my experience I can tell that "APIC error" messages are entirely hardware related. Regards, Konstantin On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 08:09 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > I have an older MSI motherboard and when I enable the following option: > > >From lshw: > description: Motherboard > product: MS-6730 > > [*] IO-APIC support on uniprocessors > > I get the following errors in dmesg: > > [ 247.177372] APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) > [ 247.556741] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 262.010412] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 262.765553] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 263.876481] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 264.191962] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 265.040566] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 267.959689] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 269.446029] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 269.853344] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 271.122825] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 271.287051] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 273.825237] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 274.373737] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 275.355775] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 275.982087] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 276.101181] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 276.173611] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 276.970970] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 277.561575] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 278.694486] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 279.353573] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 281.779398] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 283.625457] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 284.749322] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 284.983013] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > [ 285.126394] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > > I normally do not use this option (which also gets rid of the errors*1), > but I am curious, why do these errors occur? I remember them with the early > 2.6.x series and they are still re-occurring in 2.6.22.1. > > The weird part-- is when IO-APIC is disabled, I see this on boot: > > IO-APIC DISABLED: > > [ 46.902712] XFS mounting filesystem md0 > [ 47.017322] spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > [ 47.273009] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md0 > > IO-APIC ENABLED: > > [ 46.851012] XFS mounting filesystem md0 > [ 47.103066] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md0 > > * 1 Anytime I see a spurious interrupt on (usually older hardware) > especially during file I/O this usually means corruption (from what I > have seen) that is why I don't really want to trust anything on this host. > > Anyone have any idea what's going on here? > > Justin. > - > 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/ > > - 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/