bad irq stuff (irqpoll) happening on asus p4p800se after upgrade to 2.6.20-16
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: kernel-
I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I think I had the following situation happening:
long uptime of kubuntu feisty with regular updates, no rebooting. So I skipped the 2.6.20-15 upgrade and went straight from 2.6.17 to 2.6.20-16. I'm using the nvidia restricted module.
This is my "production" machine at home, it is always on and serves everything, including the music using slimserver (external package from slimdevices).
After reboot, the slimserver had trouble serving up the music, which is on a sata disk (I have 2 sata disks and one pata. the pata is root and home)
Then I had trouble finding the problem, thought it was a disk failing. I was very confused by the fact that my sd* disks were now gone and I only had hd* disks.
Rebooted while reducing the disk count, still errors
Couple of reboots later, I started to suspect my dvd burner (on secondary pata cable), so I removed that (and cleaned the case in the process) Removed all the hdds as well.
Only dvdburner with kubuntu edgy install dvd, boots, but can't mount the install "cdrom". So I figure the burner is broken somehow. Remove that, boot with only my pata disk and kubuntu bootsystem.
2.6.20-16 still gi ves problems, 2.6.17 is working, but no graphics (nvidia driver is no longer there for this kernel). All the disks are working now, no irqpoll messages.
so I try 2.6.20-15, which also works ok, it seems.
I have no idea what happened, but I suspect something changed in the irq handling code in the kernel between 2.6.20-15 and -16.
If more info is needed, I'll try to help, but I can't go around rebooting this machine constantly.
Changed in linux-source-2.6.20: | |
assignee: | nobody → phillip-lougher |
status: | Unconfirmed → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Just added the dvdburner again, and it's working fine.
kernel is: 2.6.20-15-386
I did notice that the -16 kernel also had hyperthreading turned on (again).
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
Is my hardware so obscure?
Cheers
Simon