Re: 2.2.14 SMP 3com905: transmit timed out: Odd lost irq and ip-stack lockup

From: Dr. Michael Weller (eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 04:16:43 EDT

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    On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:

    > "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:
    > >
    > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > >
    > > > > Oct 9 17:29:02 fwintern kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not
    > > > > delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
    > > >
    > > > This is the infamous APIC bug. I have about ten reports of this over a
    > > > four-month period. Mark Hemment mentioned it just yesterday.
    > > >
    > > > This is not a 3c59x problem. It is due to the APIC forgetting how to
    > > > generate interrupts for a particular IRQ. It happens mostly for NICs
    > > > because they generate a lot of interrupts. I've had it happen just
    > > > once. In that case, _nothing_ would make the interrupt come back
    > > > (including a driver unload/reload).
    > > >
    > > > This gets reported a lot by 3c59x users because this driver specifically
    > > > detects and reports on the problem.
    > >
    > > Hmm, that's interesting. It would be worthwhile to see a dump of APICs'
    > > state when this happens -- maybe an EOI message gets lost for some reason
    > > or an erratum is biting us. There are functions for such kind of
    > > diagnostics already available; they are print_IO_APIC() and
    > > print_all_local_APICs() and may be called on demand by a tiny module, for
    > > example.
    >
    > Thanks!
    >
    > Michael, would you be able to:
    >
    > - go back to 2.4.0

    Back?

    Sorry, this is a production system of a customer I cannot just update to a
    completely new kernel possibly sacrificing all startup scripts /system
    utilities and rather complex firewall setup. I'll see what I can do
    though.

    Compiling and running 2.4.0 is not the problem, I just don't know if it
    will work with the 2.2.14 system utilities and libc (I had bad experiences
    with such things in the past)

    Michael. 

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