On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 01:06:14PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > A few years back intel published a spec update: > http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/specification-update/5520-and-5500-chipset-ioh-specification-update.pdf > > For the 5520 and 5500 chipsets which contained an errata (specificially errata > 53), which noted that these chipsets can't properly do interrupt remapping, and > as a result the recommend that interrupt remapping be disabled in bios. While > many vendors have a bios update to do exactly that, not all do, and of course > not all users update their bios to a level that corrects the problem. As a > result, occasionally interrupts can arrive at a cpu even after affinity for that > interrupt has be moved, leading to lost or spurrious interrupts (usually > characterized by the message: > kernel: do_IRQ: 7.71 No irq handler for vector (irq -1) > > There have been several incidents recently of people seeing this error, and > investigation has shown that they have system for which their BIOS level is such > that this feature was not properly turned off. As such, it would be good to > give them a reminder that their systems are vulnurable to this problem. For > details of those that reported the problem, please see: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887006 > > [ Joerg: Removed CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP ifdef from early-quirks.c ] > > Notes: Modified early-quirks.c to include linux/irq.h, to fix warnings. This > isn't needed in the upstream tree > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Don Dutile <ddutile@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@xxxxxxxxx> > CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > CC: Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm@xxxxxxxx> > CC: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> > CC: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> > (cherry picked from commit 03bbcb2e7e292838bb0244f5a7816d194c911d62) As 3.9-stable is now dead, this one missed that window, sorry about that. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html