Bug 809238

Summary: ioapic probe error message appeared coincident with 3.3 kernel
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Carney <mwc>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: B_B_Singh, gansalmon, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, tpeplt
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Description Michael Carney 2012-04-02 20:00:28 UTC
Description of problem: The following message appeared once my system began using the 3.3 kernel:

WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
    ioapic: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -22 ...:  1 Time(s)

I tried booting 3.2.* kernels -- no such message appears.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.3.*


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot 3.3 kernel
2. dmesg / observe /var/log/messages

  
Additional info:

System still runs fine -- message appears benign.

Comment 1 Michael Carney 2012-04-02 20:01:34 UTC
System details:

Dell Workstation 530n, 2 x 2GHz dual core Xeons, 2GB memory.

Comment 2 Prarit Bhargava 2012-06-21 13:32:13 UTC
Michael, this is more likely than not a BIOS ACPI issue.  Your system does not have ACPI entries for the IOAPIC and that is what is causing the failure.

You should check with Dell to see if there is a BIOS update for your system.

P.

Comment 3 Prarit Bhargava 2012-06-21 14:13:17 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Michael, this is more likely than not a BIOS ACPI issue.  Your system does
> not have ACPI entries for the IOAPIC and that is what is causing the failure.
> 
> You should check with Dell to see if there is a BIOS update for your system.
> 
> P.

Actually Michael, I take this back.

While it is possible that you don't have BIOS ACPI entries for your APICs, it is more likely that this error is occurring because the APICs are re-examined by the PCI ioapic driver after they've already been init'd at boot time.  That code is spitting out a (useless) error.

I'll see what I can do to fix this.

P.

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2012-10-23 15:25:08 UTC
# Mass update to all open bugs.

Kernel 3.6.2-1.fc16 has just been pushed to updates.
This update is a significant rebase from the previous version.

Please retest with this kernel, and let us know if your problem has been fixed.

In the event that you have upgraded to a newer release and the bug you reported
is still present, please change the version field to the newest release you have
encountered the issue with.  Before doing so, please ensure you are testing the
latest kernel update in that release and attach any new and relevant information
you may have gathered.

If you are not the original bug reporter and you still experience this bug,
please file a new report, as it is possible that you may be seeing a
different problem. 
(Please don't clone this bug, a fresh bug referencing this bug in the comment is sufficient).

Comment 5 Justin M. Forbes 2012-11-13 15:04:21 UTC
With no response, we are closing this bug under the assumption that it is no longer an issue. If you still experience this bug, please feel free to reopen the bug report.

Comment 6 Balaji Singh 2014-04-14 13:04:13 UTC
Hi Prarit,

In reply to #comment3, can you pleas share the patch for fix for this issue.