Re: v2.6.26-rc9: ACPI PCI irq routing on NUMA? + early_ioremap trouble

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
>> Looks like APIC was misconfigured, which might explain IRQ routing weirdness?
>
>  Here pin1 and pin2 have been correctly initialised, but apic1 and apic2
> are both set to -1.  This is an "impossible scenario."  Because of that
> I/O APIC code actually pokes at random registers of the local APIC which
> immediately precedes I/O APIC #0 in the fixmap.  Results may be arbitrary.
>
>> Will try to provide the booting one later. Now zZz...
>
>  Your system uses an MP table and there were quite a lot of changes in its
> support code recently.  A bug must have crept in.  Please try the appended
> patch and the "apic=debug" option for both cases and the resulting logs
> may shed some light.

I have done this for the bad case:
http://folk.uio.no/vegardno/linux/netconsole2.txt

(I added a warning for certain APIC errors as well. Not that it adds
much in this particular case, but I think it would be good to have in
mainline anyway, to highlight these error cases in the future...)


Vegard

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