Re: False positive "do_IRQ: #.55 No irq handler for vector" messages on AMD ryzen based laptops

[Thomas Gleixner]

Hans,

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 05-03-19 20:54, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 08:40:02PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > Finger pointing at the firmware if there are multiple vendors involved
> > > is really not going to help here. Esp. since most OEMs will just respond
> > > with "the machine works fine with Windows"
> > 
> > Yes, because windoze simply doesn't report that spurious IRQ, most
> > likely.
> 
> So maybe we need to lower the priority of the do_IRQ error from pr_emerg
> to pr_err then ?  That will stop throwing the errors in the users face each
> boot on distros which have chosen to set the quiet loglevel to such a level
> that pr_err messages are not shown on the console (*).

Well, we rather try to understand and fix the issue.

So if Tom's theory holds, then the patch below should cure it.

Thanks,

	tglx

8<---------------------

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -1642,6 +1642,7 @@ static void end_local_APIC_setup(void)
  */
 void apic_ap_setup(void)
 {
+	clear_local_APIC();
 	setup_local_APIC();
 	end_local_APIC_setup();
 }