Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:25:28 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: APIC error 80(80) and 00(80) |
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Timur Alperovich wrote: > Hi, > > I apologize if others have asked this question before, but I'm a bit > confused by the APIC error messages, i.e. I couldn't find what they > mean. After inserting a kernel module I wrote and trying to read the > device it created, I see the following in dmesg: > > Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed. > warning: many lost ticks. > Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts > rip tg3_read32+0x9/0xa [tg3] > Falling back to HPET > APIC error on CPU3: 00(80) > APIC error on CPU3: 80(80) > > where the last message was repeated 1600 times. Could anyone tell me > what it means or of a better place to ask about it?
Not sure exactly what that means, but sounds like something really wonky happened.. I'd suspect your code somehow got stuck in a loop with interrupts off on one CPU, or corrupted memory, or something.
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