linux-kernel - Re: booting "nosmp" kernel causing ACPI errors

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Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:47:42 +0200
From:	Bernard Pidoux <bernard.pidoux@...c.fr>
To:	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
CC:	Bernard Pidoux <bernard.pidoux@...c.fr>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: booting "nosmp" kernel causing ACPI errors

Hi,

Please find attached both requested dumps without and with nosmp
argument for 2.6.36 kernel compiled for SMP.

Bernard


Le 22/10/2010 02:48, Zhang Rui a écrit :
> Hi, Bernard,
>
> On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 00:45 +0800, Bernard Pidoux wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I observed ACPI errors when booting 2.6.35.7 kernel with "nosmp" argument.
>> dmesg shows a warning message starting with :
>> WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:1981 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5b4/0x6d0()
>> +Hardware name: MS-7519
>> +Modules linked in:
>> +Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35.7 #2
>>
>>      
> it seems that ACPI is trying to load an invalid table.
> would you please attach the acpidump of your laptop, both with and
> without "nosmp"?
>
> thanks,
> rui
>    
>> This is followed by ACPI error messages and /proc/interrupts show that
>> interrupts 0-15 are then handled by XT-PIC-XT
>> instead of IO-APIC-edge and IO-APIC-fasteoi when runing smp kernel.
>>
>> Here is lspci dump :
>>
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller
>> (rev 03)
>> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root
>> Port (rev 03)
>> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
>> UHCI Controller #4
>> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
>> UHCI Controller #5
>> 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
>> UHCI Controller #6
>> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2
>> EHCI Controller #2
>> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio
>> Controller
>> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express
>> Root Port 1
>> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express
>> Port 2
>> 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express
>> Root Port 6
>> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
>> UHCI Controller #1
>> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
>> UHCI Controller #2
>> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB
>> UHCI Controller #3
>> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2
>> EHCI Controller #1
>> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
>> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface
>> Controller
>> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port
>> SATA IDE Controller #1
>> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
>> 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port
>> SATA IDE Controller #2
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400
>> GS] (rev a1)
>> 02:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 IDE controller
>> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
>>
>> I observed the same issue with another machine with also an MSI
>> motherboard but using a PCI bridge VIA VT8237/VX700
>> even when booting with "pci=use_crs" argument.
>>
>> Attached is diff -ruN file between 2.6.35.7 kernel without and with
>> "nosmp" boot argument.
>>
>> Bernard
>>
>>      
>
>    


View attachment "dmesg_2.6.36-smp.txt" of type "text/plain" (23718 bytes)

View attachment "dmesg_2.6.36-nosmp.txt" of type "text/plain" (30606 bytes)