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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible hang inside interrupt handler on sata_promise.
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:59:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E95E5D.2050305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070912131904.GW14474@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com>

On 09/12/2007 09:19 AM, Robin Holt wrote:
> I have been experiencing hangs on a newly setup machine.  Unfortunately,
> it appears to be hanging inside the interrupt handler as sysrq and
> caps-lock led seem to stop working when the event occurs.  I am guessing
> it is related to the sata_promise driver, but that is only a guess as
> I don't get much for output.  I am running the debian unstable kernel
> (2.6.22-1-686), but the problem also occurs with the debian stable kernel
> (2.6.18-4-686).  I do need to boot with the acpi=off option, but am
> not sure if that is related.  Unfortunately, I do not know much about
> troubleshooting i386 when problems occur inside the interrupt handlers.

There is a list of kernel options you can try, including:

  noapic
  nolapic
  pci=nomsi,nommconf
  pci=noacpi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-13 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-12 13:19 Possible hang inside interrupt handler on sata_promise Robin Holt
2007-09-12 15:33 ` Mikael Pettersson
2007-09-13 15:59 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-09-13 17:13   ` Robin Holt
2007-09-13 17:20     ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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