We keep seeing such dmesg messages on boxes
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 457 at drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c:697
ioat3_dca_init+0x19c/0x1b0 [ioatdma]()
[ 16.609614] ioatdma 0000:00:04.0: APICID_TAG_MAP set incorrectly by
BIOS, disabling DCA
...
[<
ffffffff8172807e>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
[<
ffffffff81067f7d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
[<
ffffffff81068034>] warn_slowpath_fmt_taint+0x44/0x50
[<
ffffffffa00228bc>] ioat3_dca_init+0x19c/0x1b0
[ioatdma]
[<
ffffffffa0021cd6>] ioat3_dma_probe+0x386/0x3e0
[ioatdma]
[<
ffffffffa001a192>] ioat_pci_probe+0x122/0x1b0
[ioatdma]
[<
ffffffff81329385>] local_pci_probe+0x45/0xa0
[<
ffffffff81080d34>] work_for_cpu_fn+0x14/0x20
[<
ffffffff81083c33>] process_one_work+0x183/0x490
[<
ffffffff81084bd3>] worker_thread+0x2a3/0x410
[<
ffffffff81084930>] ? rescuer_thread+0x410/0x410
[<
ffffffff8108b852>] kthread+0xd2/0xf0
[<
ffffffff8108b780>] ?
No need to use WARN_TAINT_ONCE to generate a such big noise if this is
not a critical error for kernel. DCA driver could print out a debug
messages then quit quietly.
If this is a real BIOS bug, please ignore this patch. Let's transfer
this issue to BIOS guys.
Thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/8/446
Orabug:
21666295
Signed-off-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
}
if (!dca2_tag_map_valid(ioatdca->tag_map)) {
- WARN_TAINT_ONCE(1, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND,
- "%s %s: APICID_TAG_MAP set incorrectly by BIOS, disabling DCA\n",
- dev_driver_string(&pdev->dev),
- dev_name(&pdev->dev));
+ dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "APICID_TAG_MAP set incorrectly by BIOS, disabling DCA\n");
free_dca_provider(dca);
return NULL;
}
}
if (dca3_tag_map_invalid(ioatdca->tag_map)) {
- WARN_TAINT_ONCE(1, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND,
- "%s %s: APICID_TAG_MAP set incorrectly by BIOS, disabling DCA\n",
- dev_driver_string(&pdev->dev),
- dev_name(&pdev->dev));
+ dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "APICID_TAG_MAP set incorrectly by BIOS, disabling DCA\n");
free_dca_provider(dca);
return NULL;
}