Stray ide interrupts in 2.1.97/2.1.98 (ppp releated?)

epeisach@MIT.EDU
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:41:07 -0400


I will be describing a problem I have recently found in uprading to
2.1.97/2.1.98. The problem did not happen with the 2.1.78 kernel
(sorry - I didn't go for the intermediate kernels).

2.1.97 and 2.1.98 (w/ ioapic patch) appears to be stable on my AMD K6.
When I bring up the PPP connection, I start getting the following:
(usually happens when downloading files, etc)

ide1: unexpected interrupt, status=0x7f

The entries for ide1 in /proc/interrupts indicates that interrupts are being
sent....

Now, my hard disk is on ide0, and a CDROM on ide1. The CDROM drive is
empty and nothing (as far as I know) is trying to access it.

Once these messages start to appear, if I warm boot the machine the
messages come back - even without using the serial device. A full power
shutdown and restart is required to avoid these issues.

Has anyone seen this problem and/or have any suggestions?

Ezra

Bootup messages:

Linux version 2.1.98 (root@home) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #2 SMP Mon Apr 27 05:23:3
8 EDT 1998
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
Calibrating delay loop... 465.31 BogoMIPS
Memory: 31080k/32768k available (676k kernel code, 400k reserved, 580k data, 32k init)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 for Linux 2.1
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.16 for Linux NET3.038.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.037
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU0: AMD K6 (166 - 266) stepping 02
SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0200
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware.
Starting kswapd v 1.5
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 58, VID=10b9, DID=5229
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled

ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: ST34342A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: , ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: ST34342A, 4103MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=523/255/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Starting kmod
Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed
Adding Swap: 56220k swap-space (priority -1)
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Serial driver version 4.25 with enabled
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

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Config file: (w/ comment lines removed)

CONFIG_M686=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PACKET=m
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_CS4232=m
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y

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