Hello.
Philippe De Muyter wrote:
Summary :
When I started to listen to a USB serial GPS receiver, the interrupts
of my sata disk were blocked until reboot :(
Switching in the BIOS from 'APIC disabled' to 'APIC enabled' made the problem
disappear.
previously we had all but one usb interrupts on the same line as ata_piix :
5: 17183 XT-PIC-XT-PIC ata_piix, ata_piix, ehci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb5, uhci_hcd:usb6, uhci_hcd:usb7, uhci_hcd:usb8
while now they are spread on different lines : 16, 18, 19, 21 and 22
So I wonder if there is still a bug, but that it is not triggered anymore.
Is there a way to tell which interrupt line the USB GPS receiver is connected
to ?
See which USB bus the device is on, using lsusb. It should match up
with the usbX number in the above list.
Given that I get :
tmp199:~ # lsusb
...
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
tmp199:~ # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
...
19: 996143 995511 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb5, uhci_hcd:usb7
tmp199:~ #
my USB GPS receiver and my sata disk still share the same interrupt, I assume ?
What's changed now is that this interrupt line is now IO-APIC-fasteoi instead
of XT-PIC-XT-PIC. Maybe there's something to look at there ?
Glad enabling APIC in your BIOS fixed this.
I am glad too :)
Nothing got "fixed" by doing that.
Swept under the rug, yes.
But the bug is still there.
If it is a bug (what I also believe) it is not a new one :
Before installing 2.6.37-20-desktop (opensuse 11.4) on this new hardware,
I had the same problem with 2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop (opensuse 11.2) and
with 2.6.22.18-0.2-default (opensuse 10.3)
The only interesting file where I find the word 'XT-PIC' is
arch/alpha/kernel/irq_i8259.c
Why it's interesting if you're not really on Alpha? Because there is also
arch/x86/kernel/i8259.c (and several others)...
Best regards
Philippe
WBR, Sergei
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
