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Hunting for missing ACPI interrupt


From: David Murray <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:55:35 +0100

Hi All,

I'm wondering if anyone out there can offer any hints for finding a missing interrupt.

I've got box here where the front-panel power button has never worked - it doesn't shut the system down. I thought I'd look into it - how hard can it be to make an off switch work, I thought. (People familiar with ACPI will be laughing out loud at this point.)

Anyway, it turns out the power button doesn't work because the ACPI interrupt never appears, at least according to vmstat -i. Building the ACPI module with debug shows that it seems to be doing all the right things - it figures out where the registers are in i/o space, enables ACPI, installs a handler and unmasks the power button as an interrupt source. And pressing the button *does* toggle the corresponding status bit, so the hardware really ought to be generating an interrupt at this point.

So, either I still have some ACPI (or BIOS or hardware) misconfiguration which means the interrupt isn't being generated as advertised, or I have some sort of interrupt handling misconfiguration which means the interrupt's not getting through to the handler. Can anyone make any suggestions as to how I might diagnose which it is?

I did take a look through the FreeBSD ACPI mailing list (I'm assuming the Dragonfly code's still pretty similar) but found only lots of problems with interrupt storms, not interrupt droughts.

Thanks in advance!


-- David Murray



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