Re: Suppress APIC errors on UP x86-64.

Andi Kleen
2006-02-24T02:18:19Z

On Friday 24 February 2006 02:53, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:45:29AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Friday 24 February 2006 02:42, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Quite a few UP x86-64 laptops print APIC error 40's repeatedly
> > > when they run an SMP kernel (And Fedora doesn't ship a UP x86-64 kernel
> > > any more). We can suppress this as there's not really anything we
> > > can do about them.
> >
> > No we need to fix the APIC errors, not hide them.
>
> What do you need to fix them ? I've got one laptop here that
> is affected, and there's a few other examples with dmesg's
> in Red Hat bugzilla that I can trawl.

Some pattern analysis would be useful. All the same chipset, revision?

Best you collect boot logs.

-Andi