From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759791AbXIMP7t (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:59:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756252AbXIMP7k (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:59:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56290 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751623AbXIMP7k (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:59:40 -0400 Message-ID: <46E95E5D.2050305@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:59:25 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Holt CC: Mikael Pettersson , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Possible hang inside interrupt handler on sata_promise. References: <20070912131904.GW14474@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070912131904.GW14474@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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