Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm4 (and 3) IRQ problem

From: Len Brown
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 00:01:45 EST


Need full dmesg (eg. dmesg -s40000) to see if it is related to recent
ACPI changes. like this:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2366

thanks,
-Len

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 13:13, Fabio Coatti wrote:
> I'm seeing a problem with ethernet driver (e1000) on 2.6.5-rc2-mm4,
> here the
> syslog excerpt:
>
> ========================
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full
> Duplex
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: irq 18: nobody cared!
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: Call Trace:
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c010882b>] __report_bad_irq+0x2a/0x8b
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c0108937>] note_interrupt+0x91/0xaf
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c0108c4a>] do_IRQ+0x151/0x19a
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c034b4c8>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c0104c2e>] default_idle+0x0/0x2c
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c0104c57>] default_idle+0x29/0x2c
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c0104cbb>] cpu_idle+0x2e/0x3c
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c0430a02>] start_kernel+0x196/0x1c5
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c0430436>]
> unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x126
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel:
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: handlers:
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c02a7b0b>] (ata_interrupt+0x0/0x173)
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: [<c02d2f9c>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x67)
> Mar 27 18:39:23 kefk kernel: Disabling IRQ #18
> ===========================
>
> I've seen the same problem on -mm3, but that version has other
> problems that
> prevents me to do more tests.
>
> A similar issue was present in earlier kernel when I've tried to use
> SATA
> driver compiled as modules, same behaviour, solved by compiling SATA
> driver
> as built-in, not as module. (I've both normal ATA and SATA controllers
> active
> on my mb)
>
> under 2.6.5-rc2-mm1, this is the output of cat /proc/interrupts; as
> you can
> see there is also a nvidia module, but the problem arises event
> without that
> module. irq 18 is shared between eth0,libata and uhci_hcd.
>
> [root@kefk root]# cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 1002506 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
> 1: 4722 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
> 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
> 12: 8826 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
> 14: 11920 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0
> 15: 23 0 IO-APIC-edge ide1
> 16: 278123 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, nvidia
> 17: 2337 0 IO-APIC-level Intel ICH5
> 18: 56240 0 IO-APIC-level libata, uhci_hcd, eth0
> 19: 55 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd
> 22: 279 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
> 23: 0 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd
> NMI: 0 0
> LOC: 1002427 1002439
> ERR: 0
> MIS: 0
>
> The MB is a ABIT IC7-G (i875p) ICH5, the kernel is compiled with
> SMP/SMT
> support active.
>
> Please let me know if more details are needed.
>
> A small question, not related to the above issue:
> reverting 4k-stacks-always-on.patch can lead to problems or it's safe?
> I've to
> run nvidia binary driver so I've to use 8k instead of 4k; it would be
> better
> (for my standpoint) to have the possibility to disable 4k from config,
> but to
> do so I've to revert this patch. Apart from losing time to do a patch
> -R :),
> using 8k can be a problem?
>
> Many thanks for any answer.
>
> --
> Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova
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