linux-kernel - Re: Strange EHCI/OHCI IRQ and other PCI errors on boot with 2.6.32 (which 2.6.26 did not see) on Geode LX/CS5536.

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Message-ID: <20100120223855.GQ24305@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:38:55 -0500
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-geode@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange EHCI/OHCI IRQ and other PCI errors on boot with 2.6.32
	(which 2.6.26 did not see) on Geode LX/CS5536.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:06:53PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 03:20:46PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > Okay, this means that something else is affecting the IRQ line.
> > 
> > Yep.  I went and disabled irq5 on the LPC bus, and that didn't help.
> > 
> > > > Interestingly the number of interrupts listed in /proc/interrupts is
> > > > exactly 300000.
> > > 
> > > That's probably because the kernel disabled the IRQ after 100000 
> > > unhandled interrupts, and re-enabled it each time a new device was
> > > registered for that IRQ.
> > 
> > Certainly seems to be the case.
> > 
> > > Or you could just stop using USB on the old box.  :-)
> > 
> > Well I just tried another box, and same thing.
> > 
> > If I boot with 'irqpoll' then everything seems fine.
> > 
> > Any idea how I can figure out why irqpoll makes it happy?  Does it give
> > any reports anywhere about misrouted irqs?
> 
> Not that I know of.

That's unfortunate.  After all it would be nice if irqpoll found an
unhandled irq and called all the other handlers and the irq went away,
then a report of which handler cleared it would be very helpful.

> Does 2.6.26 fail on the new machine?

Yes.

As far as I can tell some machines don't see the problem.  I am still
investigating that.

> Are you using a .config different from the one that used to work with 
> 2.6.26?

Well of course, but not for the USB settings.  It is supposed to be the
same as far as possible.  I will go compare them in more detail.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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