linux-kernel - Re: System hang in quirk_usb_handoff

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Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:09:25 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: System hang in quirk_usb_handoff_ohci

Kai Ruhnau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some days ago, I reported a reproducible hang during boot. The
> information around was quite vague and so I took the liberty to further
> dig into the the call stack of pci_init and found the exact place where
> the initialization locks.
> But first the symptoms (those are improved as well):
> 
> If I turn on or restart my computer and try to boot without my
> intervention, the system always hangs during boot, the last output being
> the io scheduler registration. However, if I press a key at any time
> after the BIOS (for example manual choosing  the grub entry or during
> the kernel messages) the system happily boots normally.
> 
> After a little printk debugging, it turns out, that
> quirk_usb_handoff_ohci will hang when applied to my first USB OHCI pci
> device. I have marked the offending line in the following snippet (line
> 186 in the original---the second writel)
> 
> ============ (startint at line 182 inn pci-quirks.c)
> [...]
>     u32 control = readl(base + OHCI_CONTROL);
>     if (control & OHCI_CTRL_IR) {
>         int wait_time = 500; /* arbitrary; 5 seconds */
>         writel(OHCI_INTR_OC, base + OHCI_INTRENABLE);
> 
>        // The next line might hang
> 
>         writel(OHCI_OCR, base + OHCI_CMDSTATUS);
>         while (wait_time > 0 &&
>                 readl(base + OHCI_CONTROL) & OHCI_CTRL_IR) {
>             wait_time -= 10;
>             msleep(10);
>         }
> [...]
> =========
> 
> The lspci output for the device is
> 
> 00:13.0 0c03: 1002:4387 (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
>         Subsystem: 1462:7326              
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
>         Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]   
>         Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd                            
>         Kernel modules: ohci-hcd                                  
> 
> My system is a
> 
> Linux  2.6.28-gentoo #12 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 29 21:01:04 CET 2008 x86_64
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
> Thanks for your time.

It's most likely a BIOS bug, it somehow blows up when we tell it to give 
up control of the USB controller (the BIOS will control it initially to 
handle USB keyboard/mouse support). Is there an update available?

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