Re: Interrupt storm on acpi0 occurred after madt.c change

From: Sangwoo Shim <ssw_at_neo.redjade.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:31:42 +0900
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:11:19PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> Can you provide a dmesg?  IRQ20 on your box is a PCI interrupt and PCI 
> interrupts are level/lo, not level/hi.  To top it off, ACPI states that the 
> SCI is supposed to always be level/lo.  You must have a very broken BIOS to 
> get a storm now.
>

I've attached my dmesg -v output.
Well, I've notice intpin 20 polarity difference between before and after
MADT change. Certainly the disaster arose by my BIOS's fault, I suppose.

--- dmesg_before        Sat Jan 31 07:48:39 2004
+++ dmesg_after	Sat Jan 31 07:42:28 2004

...
+MADT: Forcing active-lo polarity and level trigger for IRQ 9
+ioapic0: intpin 20 polarity: active-lo
 ioapic0: intpin 20 trigger: level
-ioapic0: intpin 20 polarity: active-hi
...

Can this problem be addressed by overriding fixed DSDT( by loading good enough
aml code)? If so, /methinks he will spend this weekend studying about acpi
and fixing the faulty BIOS. :-)

Received on Fri Jan 30 2004 - 14:32:09 UTC

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