Probably solved or worked around: 2.6.37 says WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1287setup_local_APIC+0x18f/0x263()

[wzab]

I had similar problems as reported in 
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27642

I was using buildroot buildroot-2011.02 with kernel 2.6.37.2 on virtual 
machine inside of QEMU
The warning shown in the subject further lead to incorrect routing of 
IRQs from PCI devices
connected withg QEMU's option "-device DEVICE_NAME".

The warning was reported as:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1287 setup_local_APIC+0x22a/0x34d()
Hardware name: Bochs
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:0 Tainted: G        W   2.6.37 #3
Call Trace:
 [<c102f318>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xb0
 [<c12ebde5>] ? setup_local_APIC+0x22a/0x34d
 [<c12ebde5>] ? setup_local_APIC+0x22a/0x34d
 [<c102f36b>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x1b/0x20
 [<c12ebde5>] ? setup_local_APIC+0x22a/0x34d
 [<c12eb0d8>] ? start_secondary+0xd3/0x1c1
---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da23 ]---

And IRQs were routed as follows:

wzab_enc1 0000:00:04.0: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: INT A -> IRQ 35
 mmio_start=f2060000, mmio_end=f2060fff, mmio_len=1000, irq=35

IRQ35 was not available in the emulated system so driver was not able to 
request it.

The problem disappeared, after I have switched on the following options 
in kernel configuration:
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_ACPI=y

I have verified, that this resulted in automatic selection of option
CONFIG_PCI_IOAPIC=y

After recompilation of kernel, I don't get the mentioned warning during 
the boot
and IRQs are routed correctly:
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
wzab_enc1 0000:00:04.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, high) 
-> IRQ 11
 mmio_start=f2060000, mmio_end=f2060fff, mmio_len=1000, irq=11

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HTH & Regards,
Wojtek





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