From: ak@suse.de Subject: Disable APIC error printing References: 156576 Patch-mainline: not planned ATI chipsets currently do this all the time. It's probably mostly harmless We keep it enabled in mainline to make sure the (hardware?) bug is tracked down, but don't bother in the distribution kernels with it. --- arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c @@ -1316,8 +1316,10 @@ void smp_error_interrupt(struct pt_regs 6: Received illegal vector 7: Illegal register address */ +#if 0 printk(KERN_DEBUG "APIC error on CPU%d: %02lx(%02lx)\n", smp_processor_id(), v , v1); +#endif irq_exit(); } --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c @@ -998,8 +998,10 @@ asmlinkage void smp_error_interrupt(void 6: Received illegal vector 7: Illegal register address */ +#if 0 printk(KERN_DEBUG "APIC error on CPU%d: %02x(%02x)\n", smp_processor_id(), v , v1); +#endif irq_exit(); }