Re: 2.3.21 APIC error interrupts

Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:39:38 +0200 (MET DST)


On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Eric Dittman wrote:

> With 2.3.21 I keep getting the following messages:
>
> Oct 12 10:48:58 narnia kernel: APIC error interrupt on CPU#0, should never happen.
> Oct 12 10:48:58 narnia kernel: ... APIC ESR0: 00000004
> Oct 12 10:48:58 narnia kernel: ... APIC ESR1: 00000002

Your board probably works under marginal conditions. Bits #0 and #1 in
ESR mean APIC bus transmit/receive checksum errors and bits #2 and #3 mean
transmit/receive accept errors. All of these usually indicate serious
problems with hardware.

> I get a whole lot more of these every so often. I didn't see these on
> earlier versions of 2.3.xx (but I skipped from 2.3.18ac10 to 2.3.21).

Logging of these errors was only introduced in 2.3.20.

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