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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5+ and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12+ contain ACPI 'Warning' messages - Lenovo Systems

Troubleshooting


Problem

Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 and 7.0, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES12), the following messages (or similar ones) are seen in the system's Dmesg boot log: [ 13.868496] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x

Resolving The Problem

Source

RETAIN tip: H214329

Symptom

Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 and 7.0, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES12), the following messages (or similar ones) are seen in the system's Dmesg boot log:

  [   13.868496] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f (\\GPE0) (20130517/utaddress-254)
[   13.868526] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[   13.868530] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052f conflicts with OpRegion 0x000000000000052c-0x000000000000052d (\\GPIV) (20130517/utaddress-254)
[   13.868532] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[   13.868584] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich

Affected configurations

The system can be any of the following servers:

The system is configured with at least one of the following:

This tip is not option specific.

Note: This does not imply that the network operating system will work under all combinations of hardware and software.

Please see the compatibility page for more information:

http://www.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/

Workaround

No Workaround needed.

The WARNING messages do not adversely affect the system and are not the result of a hardware issue.

Under Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distributions listed above, the issue will be fixed in RHEL 7.2.

For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES12), the fix will be released as *both* SLES 12 SP1 and a kernel update to SLES 12 SP0.

Additional information

An Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Operation Region is a type of data object where read or write operations to the data object are performed in some hardware space. The entire Operation Region can be allocated for exclusive use to the ACPI subsystem in the host operating system. Operation Regions have 'virtual content' and are accessible only through Field objects. Operation Region objects can be defined down to actual bit controls using Field data object definitions.

When it comes to 'resource conflicts' on a system, usually from a 'Pnp' or system resource allocation perspective, the ACPI method or object utilized is the Current Resource Setting (_CRS), which determines the device that actually 'owns' the specific system resource. However, the above message explicitly mentions a resource conflict with an OperationRegion() construct, hence the direct mention of the ACPI 'RegionName' provided. Again, an OperationRegion() does not explicitly claim ownership of a system resource, the ACPI subsystem or ACPI operating system driver 'owns' it and is exclusively used by the operating system.

Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

Lenovo x86 servers:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Lenovo x86 servers:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86-64

Lenovo x86 servers:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Lenovo x86 servers:SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

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Document Information

Modified date:
30 January 2019

UID

ibm1MIGR-5097637