linux-kernel - Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 - locks when using "dd bs=1M" from card reader

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0610201133110.7060-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:55:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>
cc:	Christopher Monty Montgomery <xiphmont@...il.com>,
	Paolo Ornati <ornati@...twebnet.it>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	USB development list <linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 - locks when using "dd bs=1M"
 from card reader

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Helge Hafting wrote:

> Alan Stern wrote:
> [...]
> > After looking at the debugging output, no.  That "invalid opcode" is a red 
> > herring.  What you encountered this time was a BUG() in the source code of 
> > start_unlink_async() in drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c:
> >
> > #ifdef DEBUG
> > 	assert_spin_locked(&ehci->lock);
> > 	if (ehci->reclaim
> > 			|| (qh->qh_state != QH_STATE_LINKED
> > 				&& qh->qh_state != QH_STATE_UNLINK_WAIT)
> > 			)
> > 		BUG ();
> > #endif
> >
> > You could try putting a printk() just before the BUG() to display the 
> > values of ehci->reclaim and qh->qh_state.  Maybe also change the BUG() to 
> >   
> ehci->reclaim=0
> qh->qh_state=5

5 is QH_STATE_COMPLETING.  That explains why the BUG() fires.

At this point it's beyond me.  Monty will have to take it from here.


> During boot I get lots of those "Hardware error, end-of-data detected"
> messages, but I've never seen it crash during bootup.

Those messages are from the card reader.  It doesn't seem to be working 
right.  It returns the "end-of-data" error in response to a PREVENT MEDIUM 
REMOVAL command and it returns a phase error in response to a READ 
command.  In spite of the fact that it claims to have a 256 MB card 
present.

Alan Stern

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