Re: 2.4.21-rc7 hang on boot after spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ15.

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@ucw.cz)
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:48:32 +0200


On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:36:36AM +0800, Michael Frank wrote:

> Doing swsusp testing in endless loop. On a P4/2.4G (ACPI=off)
> on 192nd boot:
>
> spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ15.
> Calibrating delay loop...

It looks like the IDE code didn't put the controller into sleep
properly.

> hang
>
> Hit Reset and it rebooted OK
>
> This is the first spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ15 seen.
>
> I see spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 quite frequently on
> varying hardware on both 2.4 and 2.5.
>
> By design, the 8259A delivers a vector 7 when the IRQ
> line is deasserted before the IRQ is serviced. This
> applies to both edge and level trigger modes. A floating
> "wire" or crapy chipset can pickup noise, but the driver
> should handle it.
>
> No problems seen with mainboard/cpu/ram in three months.
> I dont' think it is HW, but it could be.
>
> Also, spurious 8259A interrupts are quite recent, could
> something be wrong with recent 8259A driver?
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
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