Re: ACPI interrupt storm (was Re: Linux 2.4.21rc6-ac1)

From: Con Kolivas (kernel@kolivas.org)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 19:12:07 EST


On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:01, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> I suspect this machine should be falling into one of the cases before
> this last one, thus making ACPI not use C3, or check for bus-mastering.
> I especially think this is the case because this appears to be a desktop
> system. It should not have a C3 address or a plvl3_lat less than 1000,
> yet it appears to, yes?

Sorry Andy I have no idea what you're talking about. Are there some details
specifically about this machine you want me to provide?

Con
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zwane Mwaikambo [mailto:zwane@linuxpower.ca]
> > On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > I get the same problem here with acpi-20030522 applied to rc6
> > > P4 2.53 on an i845 mobo (P4PE).
> >
> > I think it could be the Bus Mastering event monitoring thing, can you
> > shoehorn this (HACK HACK) patch into 2.4?
> >
> > Index: linux-2.5.70-mm1/drivers/acpi/processor.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /build/cvsroot/linux-2.5.70/drivers/acpi/processor.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
> > diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 processor.c
> > --- linux-2.5.70-mm1/drivers/acpi/processor.c 27 May 2003
> > 02:19:28 -0000 1.1.1.1
> > +++ linux-2.5.70-mm1/drivers/acpi/processor.c 29 May 2003
> > 11:32:00 -0000
> > @@ -711,11 +711,13 @@ acpi_processor_get_power_info (
> > * use this in our C3 policy.
> > */
> > else {
> > + goto done;
> > pr->power.states[ACPI_STATE_C3].valid = 1;
> > pr->power.states[ACPI_STATE_C3].latency_ticks =
> >
> > US_TO_PM_TIMER_TICKS(acpi_fadt.plvl3_lat);
> > pr->flags.bm_check = 1;
> > }
> > + done:
> > }
> >
> > /*

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