Re: Re: "ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter"

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:59:04AM +0800, Liwei wrote:
> On 28 June 2011 00:32, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:12:43PM +0800, Liwei wrote:
> >>
> >> Does failure of the interpreter cause anything bad to happen? Common
> >
> > Well yes. It can't interpret the ACPI _PRT tables so the
> > interrupt routing information is not present.
> >
> > Which means that the drivers fall back to polling mode or end up
> > using the wrong IRQs.
> >
> ----snip----
> >> Yes I do:
> >>
> >> [    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
> >> [    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 20 low level)
> >> [    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
> >> [    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
> >> [    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
> >> [    0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> >> ----snip----
> >> [    3.405497] Memory: 776452k/13631488k available (3239k kernel code,
> >> 3146184k absent, 9708852k reserved, 3423k data, 532k init)
> >> [    3.405579] SLUB: Genslabs=15, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0,
> >> CPUs=8, Nodes=1
> >> [    3.405616] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
> >> [    3.405630] NR_IRQS:33024 nr_irqs:2048 16
> >> [    3.405705] xen: sci override: global_irq=20 trigger=0 polarity=1
> >> [    3.405708] xen: registering gsi 20 triggering 0 polarity 1
> >> [    3.405721] xen: --> pirq=20 -> irq=20
> >> [    3.405728] xen: acpi sci 20
> >
> > Whoa. 20. That is unusual, but we do set it up. Perhaps ineptly thought.
> > Is there an option in the BIOS to toggle some ACPI SCI option?
> 
> Did a reboot and checked the BIOS menus. Nothing about SCI in there.
> Is the SCI requirement something new in the 2.6.39+ kernels? Because

No.
> things are working well with 2.6.32.

Hmm. Can you attach the full serial log and on the Linux kernel line have
'loglevel=10 debug initcall_debug' please?

Is the serial log when running under 2.6.32 any different? (up to the ACPI interpretter
blowing up)? What does the /proc/interrupts look under 2.6.32?
> 
> >
> > Does /proc/interrupts have this for IRQ 20:
> >
> >   9:          3          0          0          0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-level  acpi
> >
> > ?
> 
> Nope, IRQ 20 or any acpi related interrupts doesn't show up:
> 
>             CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3       CPU4
> CPU5       CPU6       CPU7
>    1:          4          0          0          0          0
> 0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-edge  i8042
>    3:          0          0          0          0          0
> 0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-edge  mvsas
>    5:          0          0          0          0          0
> 0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-edge  mvsas
>    8:          3          0          0          0          0
> 0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-edge  rtc0
>   10:          0          0          0          0          0
> 0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-edge  mvsas
>   11:          0          0          0          0          0
> 0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-edge  mvsas
>   12:          6          0          0          0          0
> 0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-edge  i8042

Yeah, that is messed up.