On Sun, 2 Oct 2011, Tim Blechmann wrote: > > > > > how can i help to resolve this issue? > > > > > > > > If you remove ohci-hcd and uhci-hcd but the problem remains, then > > > > you'll know it's not related to USB. > > > > > > not sure, whether this is an option for me, as i am using usb > > > mouse/keyboard ... so i cannot use the machine anymore :/ > > > > Sure you can. Just log in over a network connection. Or get a USB-2.0 > > hub and plug the mouse/keyboard into that hub. > > using a usb2 hub an unloading the uhci-hcd module, i've been testing for a > while, but again got the message: > > [20699.107441] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) > [20699.107445] Pid: 267, comm: irq/16-ahci Tainted: P 3.1.0-rc8+ #16 > [20699.107481] handlers: > [20699.107484] [<ffffffff810d0d90>] irq_default_primary_handler threaded [<ffffffffa00a9d10>] ahci_interrupt > [20699.107496] [<ffffffff810d0d90>] irq_default_primary_handler threaded [<ffffffffa0cd2a40>] snd_hdsp_interrupt > [20699.107501] Disabling IRQ #16 > > since the old report on lkml did not involve ahci, it is probably related to > the threadirqs, isn't it? Since the problem appears when threaded IRQs are enabled and disappears when they are disabled, it seems likely that threaded IRQs are involved. > shall i report it on lkml or is there a better list > to avoid that the report won't get lost in the noise? I don't know of any better list for this than LKML. You might want to CC: Thomas Gleixner, since he has been heavily involved in working on threaded IRQs. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html