RE: 2.6.16-rc5: known regressions [TP 600X S3, vanilla DSDT]

Yu, Luming
2006-03-10T06:48:31Z

> exregion-0290 [36] ex_system_io_space_han: system_iO 1 (8
>>> width) Address=00000000000000B2
>>>
>>> repeated endlessly.
>
>> I need calltrace for this
>
>Looking at /proc/acpi/debug_level, I see several debugging choices
>that might give the calltrace you want. Let me know which ones are
>essential (I'd turn all of them on; however, I found when trying to
>track this down earlier that the bug would slither away if I had too
>much debugging turned on):

What do you mean of "slither away" ?
bug go away?

>
>ACPI_LV_DISPATCH 0x00000100 [ ]
>ACPI_LV_EXEC 0x00000200 [ ]
>ACPI_LV_NAMES 0x00000400 [ ]
>ACPI_LV_FUNCTIONS 0x00200000 [ ]
>
>By the way, a long standing buglet for me is that 'cat
>/proc/acpi/debug_level' truncates the output to 1024 bytes. So I have
>to do 'cat /proc/acpi/debug_level | cat' so that the first cat doesn't
>find that its stdout is a tty and try to reduce its buffer size from
>4096 (big enough) to 1024. A patch is available at
><http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5076>

let's start from:

echo -n 0x10 > /proc/acpi/debug_layer
echo -n 0x10 > /proc/acpi/debug_level

>
>> BTW, do you still think this is a regression?
>
>I'm 95% sure, because booting with ec_intr=0 avoids the problem, so
>the commit that made ec_intr=1 the default almost certainly also makes
>this bug appear.

why NOT 100% sure? :-)