Re: [PATCH v2] amiflop: get rid of sleep_on calls

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Dec 31 2008 - 11:30:22 EST


On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 05:21:17PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> > > I just tried out my Amiga and it appears to be in better shape than
> > > expected. So I might get to actually test it when I find the time. My
> > > Amiga has no Linux installation so I need to whip up a ramdisk or
> > > something else sufficient to test it.
> >
> > I think the good old ELF ramdisk at
> > ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/unix/Linux/680x0/v2.0/filesys/filesys-ELF-2.0.x-1400K-2.gz
> > should be sufficient to give it a try...
>
> Not that easy with just 8 Megs of Fast RAM. Besides, I couldn't gunzip
> the file to look at the image, gzip gives a format error.
>
> Now, I finally got to test it with a very simply self-made initrd. So
> far I only did some read tests in a single thread (dd to /dev/null at
> various offsets). It didn't crash or hang, but I noticed that the
> floppy motor is never shut off (I'm not sure about the motor, at least
> the floppy LED stays on). However, that is not a regression, I tested
> the mainline code and it shows the same problem.

Indeed, the floppy motor keeps on running.

I added some debug code and got this:

floppy_off: nr = 0x40000000
floppy_off: mod motor_off_timer 0 jiffies + 3*HZ
fd_motor_off: drive = 0xc0000000


diff --git a/drivers/block/amiflop.c b/drivers/block/amiflop.c
index 8df436f..e42f168 100644
--- a/drivers/block/amiflop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/amiflop.c
@@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ static int fd_motor_on(int nr)
{
nr &= 3;

+pr_err("%s: del motor_off_timer %d\n", __func__, nr);
del_timer(motor_off_timer + nr);

if (!unit[nr].motor) {
@@ -368,16 +369,13 @@ static int fd_motor_on(int nr)
static void fd_motor_off(unsigned long drive)
{
long calledfromint;
-#ifdef MODULE
- long decusecount;
-
- decusecount = drive & 0x40000000;
-#endif
+pr_err("%s: drive = 0x%lx\n", __func__, drive);
calledfromint = drive & 0x80000000;
drive&=3;
if (calledfromint && !try_fdc(drive)) {
/* We would be blocked in an interrupt, so try again later */
motor_off_timer[drive].expires = jiffies + 1;
+pr_err("%s: add motor_off_timer %ld jiffies + 1\n", __func__, drive);
add_timer(motor_off_timer + drive);
return;
}
@@ -391,9 +389,11 @@ static void floppy_off (unsigned int nr)
{
int drive;

+pr_err("%s: nr = 0x%x\n", __func__, nr);
drive = nr & 3;
/* called this way it is always from interrupt */
motor_off_timer[drive].data = nr | 0x80000000;
+pr_err("%s: mod motor_off_timer %d jiffies + 3*HZ\n", __func__, drive);
mod_timer(motor_off_timer + drive, jiffies + 3*HZ);
}


Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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