On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:06:02AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 01:06:14PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > A few years back intel published a spec update: > > http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/specification-update/5520-and-5500-chipset-ioh-specification-update.pdf > > > > For the 5520 and 5500 chipsets which contained an errata (specificially > > errata > > 53), which noted that these chipsets can't properly do interrupt remapping, > > and > > as a result the recommend that interrupt remapping be disabled in bios. > > While > > many vendors have a bios update to do exactly that, not all do, and of > > course > > not all users update their bios to a level that corrects the problem. As a > > result, occasionally interrupts can arrive at a cpu even after affinity for > > that > > interrupt has be moved, leading to lost or spurrious interrupts (usually > > characterized by the message: > > kernel: do_IRQ: 7.71 No irq handler for vector (irq -1) > > > > There have been several incidents recently of people seeing this error, and > > investigation has shown that they have system for which their BIOS level is > > such > > that this feature was not properly turned off. As such, it would be good to > > give them a reminder that their systems are vulnurable to this problem. For > > details of those that reported the problem, please see: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887006 > > > > [ Joerg: Removed CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP ifdef from early-quirks.c ] > > > > Notes: Modified early-quirks.c to include linux/irq.h, to fix warnings. > > This > > isn't needed in the upstream tree > > > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]> > > CC: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]> > > CC: Don Zickus <[email protected]> > > CC: Don Dutile <[email protected]> > > CC: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> > > CC: Asit Mallick <[email protected]> > > CC: David Woodhouse <[email protected]> > > CC: [email protected] > > CC: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]> > > CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> > > CC: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <[email protected]> > > CC: Jean Delvare <[email protected]> > > CC: Greg KH <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]> > > (cherry picked from commit 03bbcb2e7e292838bb0244f5a7816d194c911d62) > > As 3.9-stable is now dead, this one missed that window, sorry about > that. > Thanks for the heads up, we tried our best :). Neil
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