How to diagnose unexpected IRQ Trap

How to diagnose unexpected IRQ Trap

[Larry Finger]

In helping troubleshoot a wireless problem with an RTL8187L (USB) device on the
openSUSE forums, the following excerpt from the dmesg output was reported:

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unexpected IRQ trap at vector a3
irq 163, desc: c053af00, depth: 1, count: 0, unhandled: 0
->handle_irq():  c0166904, handle_bad_irq+0x0/0x1e8
->chip(): c051ae9c, no_irq_chip+0x0/0x40
->action(): 00000000
IRQ_DISABLED set
unexpected IRQ trap at vector a3
irq 163, desc: c053af00, depth: 1, count: 0, unhandled: 0
->handle_irq():  c0166904, handle_bad_irq+0x0/0x1e8
->chip(): c051ae9c, no_irq_chip+0x0/0x40
->action(): 00000000
IRQ_DISABLED set
==================================================

After seeing this info, I asked for the results of 'cat /proc/interrupts' and
got the following:

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bang@resolver:~> cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0       CPU1
0:         92          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
1:         14          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
4:          1          0   IO-APIC-edge
6:          5          0   IO-APIC-edge      floppy
7:          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      parport0
8:          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
9:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
14:          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      pata_via
15:       8655          0   IO-APIC-edge      pata_via
17:      69762          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   HDA Intel, eth1
18:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   saa7134[0]
20:       8439          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb1
21:      27348          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   sata_via, uhci_hcd:usb3,
ehci_hcd:usb5
22:          9          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb2
23:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4
28:     247256          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ahci
29:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   pata_jmicron
163:   22423122          0      none-<NULL>
222:          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      aerdrv
223:          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      aerdrv
NMI:          0          0   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:     221651     239972   Local timer interrupts
RES:      21767      19731   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:        380        273   function call interrupts
TLB:       1435       2561   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
SPU:          0          0   Spurious interrupts
ERR:          0
MIS:          0
===========================================================

The kernel in question is reported as 2.6.27.7-9-pae. I don't know what the
hardware is.

What information should I get to help resolve this problem?

Thanks,

Larry