> The Intel P6 local APIC internally signals an Illegal Vector error
> whenever a zero vector is written to an LVT entry, even if the entry
> is simultaneously masked. The bug is that apic.c triggers these errors
> when the contents of LVTERR is defined by the BIOS and not the kernel,
> which can cause unexpected interrupts on unknown vectors. This typically
> happens at boot-time initialisation, PM suspend, and PM resume.
>
> The patch eliminates the problem by changing the initialisation order
> in apic.c's clear_local_APIC() and apic_pm_resume() to ensure that LVTERR
> is masked when we write (potentially) null vectors to LVT entries.
[...]
> @@ -84,6 +88,8 @@
> apic_write_around(APIC_LVTERR, APIC_LVT_MASKED);
> if (maxlvt >= 4)
> apic_write_around(APIC_LVTPC, APIC_LVT_MASKED);
> + apic_write(APIC_ESR, 0);
> + v = apic_read(APIC_ESR);
> }
You mustn't access the ESR unconditionally -- it doesn't exist in the
i82489DX. Also check the Pentium erratum 3AP for possible issues (I can't
recall if writing is safe -- possibly only the contents are lost).
Also note that's really an APIC and not a kernel bug -- writing a
previously read value to a register is defined as valid by Intel.
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