Re: ehci-hcd on CARDBUS hangs when stopping card service

Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Tue, 28 May 2002 15:54:19 +0200


On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 02:41:30PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> torvalds@transmeta.com said:
> > Also, it's generally a good idea to "just say no" to endless loops in
> > drivers. Hardware bugs _do_ happen, and it's a lot more pleasant to
> > have the driver do a
> > printk("Device does not respond\n");
> > than for the kernel to hang.
>
> Too late. On some hardware, if you try to talk to the device once it's
> gone, you're already dead. Not all the world is a PeeCee.

That happens even on a "PeeCee".

Situation:
- Normal readl() of a ioremap()ed register set of a
PCI device[1]:
-> machine hangs hard (no magic sysrq possible, no Ooops, no
panic printed)

- Several DWORD reads of the same register set succeded before
and the register is wired according to the SPEC.

Just to provide an argument here

PS: I wish I had an PCI Analyzer available...

[1] TI TMS320C6x EVM Board[2], Rev. 3
with PCI-Bridge Chip AMCC S5933[3] hanging the host side on Busmaster DMA.

[2] PCI-ID: 0x104c:0x1002
[3] PCI-ID: 0x10e8:0x4750 or 0x10e8:0x807d or 0x10e8:0x809c

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