Re: spurious APIC interrupt , then freeze

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:32:43 +0200,
jean-charles wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 14 October, 2003 ╴ 04:38:41PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:32:53 +0200,
> > Juan wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Soon after i load the maestro3 driver on a dell c600 laptop, kernel
> > > 2.6.0-test7; i get a 'spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#0, should never
> > > happen.'
> > > 
> > > then the laptop freezes and i have to power off by pressing the power
> > > button.
> > > 
> > > what does this mean ? how can it be fixed ?
> > 
> > does the attached patch have some influence?
> > 
> 
> hi,
> 
> i already have tried to do that :(  what really annoy me is that the
> freeze does not happend every time !!!!
> how can i "debug" a system freeze ?

if it's a kernel panic, you can at least have the control with magic
sysrq.  if it's not, the last resort is NMI watchdog...


Takashi


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