Running 2.4, I get thousands of the APIC error messages, which fill my
syslog.
Is there a reason for this constant spewing? The short little patch,
that simply does stops the system from complaining any more - it's
busted - we know that.
--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c Mon Oct 1 14:12:50 2001
+++ linux-2.4.9-ac16/arch/i386/kernel/apic.c Mon Oct 1 14:10:19 2001
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
int prof_old_multiplier[NR_CPUS] = { 1, };
int prof_counter[NR_CPUS] = { 1, };
+static int apic_error_count = 50;
+
int get_maxlvt(void)
{
unsigned int v, ver, maxlvt;
@@ -1061,8 +1063,11 @@
6: Received illegal vector
7: Illegal register address
*/
- printk (KERN_ERR "APIC error on CPU%d: %02lx(%02lx)\n",
- smp_processor_id(), v , v1);
+ if (apic_error_count != 0) {
+ apic_error_count--;
+ printk (KERN_ERR "APIC error on CPU%d: %02lx(%02lx)\n",
+ smp_processor_id(), v , v1);
+ }
}
/*
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