File linux-2.6-x86_64-silence-up-apic-errors.patch of Package kernel
Quite a few UP x86-64 laptops print APIC error 40's repeatedly
when they run an SMP kernel (And Fedora doesn't ship a UP x86-64 kernel
any more). We can suppress this as there's not really anything we
can do about them.
--- linux-2.6.14/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c~ 2005-12-07 15:17:33.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.14/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c 2005-12-07 15:18:16.000000000 -0500
@@ -1032,7 +1032,8 @@ asmlinkage void smp_error_interrupt(void
6: Received illegal vector
7: Illegal register address
*/
- printk (KERN_DEBUG "APIC error on CPU%d: %02x(%02x)\n",
+ if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
+ printk (KERN_DEBUG "APIC error on CPU%d: %02x(%02x)\n",
smp_processor_id(), v , v1);
irq_exit();
}