Re: Unexpected IO-APIC

Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-24T18:31:22Z

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:03:58 -0600 Lyle Worthington wrote:

| We rolled back to this kernel after having multiple problems with the
| newer 2.6 kernels. This is the only kernel that has worked for us
| consistently. It is on 70 or so other servers and runs without any
| problems.
|
| I dont see this message on any of our P3 systems - only the systems that
| have the P4s. It's refreshing to know that this is not the cause of the

Yes, the P4s have a different chipset, which is where the IO-APIC is.

| crashes - however the issue still remains that this one system is freezing
| and there is no information in any of the log files, nor is there any
| output to the screen when the system does freeze.
|
| The times of the crashes arent the same - fsck completes with no problems,
| and the only message I see in /var/log/messages is "restart" - never any
| errors. Im stuck on what to do next...
|
| Thanks again for your help - and can you please CC me on any reply - i
| dont subscribe to linux-smp.

Have you considered using a kernel debugger or crash dump (lkcd)?
Or have you tried logging /proc/meminfo and 'vmstat' output every 5
seconds or so to see if they record any useful info?

| On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:38:05 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
|
| > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:07:21 -0600 Lyle Worthington wrote:
| >
| > | I am running RedHat 7.3 on a dual P4 3.2G Xeons with 6G RAM and linux
| > | kernel 2.4.18-19.7.xbigmem. This sytem is the only one report this
| > | IO-APIC issue and has crashed 4 times in the past 6 days. I have
| > searched
| > | all over the web trying to find replies to messages people have sent in
| > | regarding this issue but have found none so I am emailing hoping you
| > can
| > | help. Here is the output from dmesg, let me know if you need any more
| > | information:
| > |
| > | IO APIC #2......
| > | .... register #00: 02008000
| > | ....... : physical APIC id: 02
| > | WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
| > | to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
| > | .... register #01: 00178020
| > | ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
| > | ....... : PRQ implemented: 1
| > | ....... : IO APIC version: 0020
| > | .... register #02: 00000000
| > | ....... : arbitration: 00
| > | .... IRQ redirection table:
| >
| > Hi,
| > The problems that you are seeing aren't likely to have anything to do
| > with the unexpected IO-APIC warning message. In fact, that message
| > has been removed in the 2.6.x kernels.
| >
| > Is there a more recent kernel that you can use? Just wondering since
| > I don't know about RH updates.
| >
| > --
| > ~Randy

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~Randy