Re: system 20% busy at all times?

From: Eggert, Lars <lars_at_netapp.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:16:54 +0000
Hi,

On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:54, Fleuriot Damien <ml_at_my.gd>
 wrote:
> And indeed we find your answer here, acpi0 firing up a lot of interrupts.
> 
> Don't you get any message about that in dmesg -a or /var/log/messages ?
> 
> I'd expect something like "interrupt storm blabla… source throttled blabla.."

nope. The only odd ACPI-related messages I see in dmesg are these:

ACPI Error: [\134_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BCMD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psargs-393)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\134_PR_.CPU0._OSC] (Node 0xfffffe0007630c00), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psparse-560)
ACPI Error: [\134_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BCMD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psargs-393)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\134_PR_.CPU0._OSC] (Node 0xfffffe0007630c00), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psparse-560)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\134_PR_.CPU0._PDC] (Node 0xfffffe0007630c40), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psparse-560)

Nothing in syslog.

> From man 4 acpi , in /boot/loader.conf :
> hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
>             Set this to 1 to disable all of ACPI.  If ACPI has been disabled
>             on your system due to a blacklist entry for your BIOS, you can
>             set this to 0 to re-enable ACPI for testing.
> 
> Any chance you could reboot the host with ACPI disabled ?

If I do that, I get an early kernel crash:

Loading 10.11.12.13/~elars/kernel/kernel:0x200000/7634255 0xb47d50/473552 0xbbb720/890736 Entry at 0x802746f0
Closing network.
Starting program at 0x802746f0
GDB: no debug ports present
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
panic: running without device atpic requires a local APIC
cpuid = 0
KDB: stack backtrace:
kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled


Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
fault virtual address	= 0x0
fault code		= supervisor read data, page not present
instruction pointer	= 0x20:0xffffffff805c2973
stack pointer	        = 0x28:0xffffffff80c9a960
frame pointer	        = 0x28:0xffffffff80c9aa80
code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
			= DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
processor eflags	= resume, IOPL = 0
current process		= 0 ()
[ thread pid 0 tid 0 ]
Stopped at      0xffffffff805c2973:     movzbl  (%rdi),%ecx


> If that helps your CPU load, try setting this in /boot/loader.conf :
> hw.acpi.verbose=1
> 	Turn on verbose debugging information about what ACPI is doing.

Done, but it doesn't really result in any additional messages:

# dmesg | grep -i acpi
  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD  CARNEGIE>
acpi0: <PTLTD CARNEGIE> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
ACPI Error: [\134_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BCMD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psargs-393)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\134_PR_.CPU0._OSC] (Node 0xfffffe0007630c00), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psparse-560)
ACPI Error: [\134_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BCMD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psargs-393)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\134_PR_.CPU0._OSC] (Node 0xfffffe0007630c00), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psparse-560)
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\134_PR_.CPU0._PDC] (Node 0xfffffe0007630c40), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130117/psparse-560)
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0
attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43,0x50-0x53 irq 0 on acpi0
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdeb00000-0xdeb1ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
pcib7: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci4
pci7: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib7
pcib29: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0
pci29: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib29
pcib30: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.4 on pci0
pci30: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib30
pcib31: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 17 at device 28.5 on pci0
pci31: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib31
pcib32: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci32: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib32
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0

Lars
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