On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:22:14 +1200 Reuben Farrelly wrote: > On 9/07/2006 9:11 p.m., Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1/ > > > > - We're getting a relatively large number of crash reports coming out of the > > core sysfs/kobject/driver/bus code, and they're all really hard to diagnose. > > > > I am suspecting that what's happening is that some registration functions > > are failing and the caller is ignoring that failure. The code proceeds and > > crashes much later, in obscure ways. > > > > All these functions return error codes, and we're not checking them. We > > should. So there's a patch which marks all these things as __must_check, > > which causes around 1,500 new warnings. > > > > These are all bugs and they all need to be fixed. > > Works. Well, it boots without crashing here and has been up for 30 or so > minutes without incident or so much as a log entry. > > I assume that the bulk of those warnings about the return error codes will be > largely dealt with by individual maintainers as there are far too many to post here? Yeah, right. (quoting Kathy Mallory with her usual sarcasm) > Some minor problems noted - possibly PCI/ACPI related (read on past the IDE bit > if that's not your cup of tea). > > 2. Onto some more minor warnings: > > ACPI: bus type pci registered > PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved > PCI: Not using MMCONFIG. > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > ACPI: Interpreter enabled > > Is there any way to verify that there really is a BIOS bug there? If it is, is > there anyone within Intel or are there any known contacts who can push and poke > to get this looked at/fixed? (It's a new Intel board, I'd hope they could get > it right..). > > Plus we're not using MMCONFIG - even though I have it enabled. > > Based on previous postings to lkml, I believe Randy Dunlap may have one of these > boards too - Randy are you seeing this and the next bunch of warnings I am seeing? I just found 2.6.18-rc1-mm1. I'll build + check. I have an Intel ICH7 motherboard with SATA. Is that close to what you have? > 3. Power Management warnings, been there ages, but I've had bigger things to > worry about (like fatal oopses) so haven't bothered asking: > > Device `[PEX0]' is not power manageable > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64 > Device `[PEX2]' is not power manageable > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64 > Device `[PEX3]' is not power manageable > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.3[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.3 to 64 > Device `[PEX4]' is not power manageable > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64 > Device `[PEX5]' is not power manageable > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.5[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 > > and > > Device `[IDES]' is not power manageable I guess that's from here: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace/ACPI/_SB/PCI0/IDES which contains 2 directories: PRID and SECD. Apparently ATA/IDE primary and secondary controllers, but I'm not sure. Those empty directory structures don't tell me much. > [root@tornado ~]# cat /proc/interrupts > CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 258266 0 IO-APIC-edge timer > 4: 355 0 IO-APIC-edge serial > 6: 5 0 IO-APIC-edge floppy > 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc > 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi > 14: 28 0 IO-APIC-edge libata > 15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge libata > 16: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb5 > 18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4 > 19: 980 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3, serial > 23: 105 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2 > 313: 82513 0 PCI-MSI-<NULL> eth0 > 314: 57370 0 PCI-MSI-<NULL> libata "We" need to fix that <NULL> there. > NMI: 217 188 > LOC: 258118 257890 > ERR: 0 > MIS: 0 > [root@tornado ~]# > > The full dmesg is up at http://www.reub.net/files/kernel/2.6.18-rc1-mm1.dmesg > and config is up at http://www.reub.net/files/kernel/2.6.18-rc1-mm1.config --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
