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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Olaf Dabrunz <od@suse.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: PCI, ACPI, IRQ, IOAPIC: reroute PCI interrupt to legacy boot interrupt equivalent
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:37:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090112113720.GB21051@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496B24E5.1070804@suse.de>


* Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de> wrote:

> Why can these IRQ lines be brought down by Boot Interrupts? Because 
> there's no handler installed on the primary IO-APIC IRQ line that can 
> take care of them and after too many unhandled IRQs the line will be 
> shut down by the kernel.

The failure mode can be quite nasty: ranging from non-working USB (and 
other) devices to hard lockups due to screaming IRQs.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-12 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-09 23:03 PCI, ACPI, IRQ, IOAPIC: reroute PCI interrupt to legacy boot interrupt equivalent Len Brown
2009-01-12 11:09 ` Stefan Assmann
2009-01-12 11:37   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-01-12 18:51   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-01-12 19:25     ` Jon Masters
2009-01-12 19:45       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-01-13 13:32       ` Stefan Assmann
2009-01-13 18:22         ` Olaf Dabrunz
2009-01-15 15:34           ` Olaf Dabrunz
2009-01-12 23:36     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-13  0:29       ` Jon Masters
2009-01-13  1:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13  3:47           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-13  4:26             ` Jon Masters
2009-01-14 11:40               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-14 19:18                 ` Jon Masters
2009-01-14 22:42                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-14 22:53                     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-14 22:56                     ` Jon Masters
2009-01-15 12:36                       ` Olaf Dabrunz
2009-01-15 10:16                     ` Stefan Assmann
2009-01-13 11:18     ` Stefan Assmann
2009-01-13 15:57       ` Olaf Dabrunz
2009-01-15  0:10         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-01-15 14:08           ` Stefan Assmann
2009-01-13  8:25   ` Shaohua Li
2009-01-14  9:57     ` Stefan Assmann
2009-01-14 15:48       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2009-01-14 15:55         ` Olaf Dabrunz
2009-01-14 16:52           ` Bjorn Helgaas

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