Re: Regression: 2.6.34 boot fails on E5405 system, bisected: de08e2c26

From: Ben Greear
Date: Tue Jul 13 2010 - 21:17:25 EST


On 07/13/2010 05:36 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
We're seeing boot failures on multiple machines, running FC8 and
F11. I bisected on an FC8 32-bit system. Newer hardware works,
but these older ones do not.

A console log of the hang is found later in this email.

Please let me know if you would like any additional information,
and I will be happy to test patches.

The same failure happens in 2.6.34.1, so the fix does not appear to
be in the stable tree yet.


I added some printks to the offending code. It seems the problem
is that the fixed_bar_cap method in arch/x86/pci/mrst.c loops forever:

# Endless loop of this spewing to console...

pcie_cap: 268435456Checking vendor..
pos after shift: 256
Before read..
pcie_cap: 268435456Checking vendor..
pos after shift: 256
Before read..
pcie_cap: 268435456Checking vendor..
pos after shift: 256
Before read..
pcie_cap: 268435456Checking vendor..
pos after shift: 256
Before read..
pcie_cap: 268435456Checking vendor..
pos after shift: 256
Before read..
pcie_cap: 268435456Checking vendor..


static int fixed_bar_cap(struct pci_bus *bus, unsigned int devfn)
{
int pos;
u32 pcie_cap = 0, cap_data;
printk("fixed_bar_cap, bus: %p devfn: %u\n", bus, devfn);
pos = PCIE_CAP_OFFSET;
while (pos) {
printk("Before read..\n");
if (raw_pci_ext_ops->read(pci_domain_nr(bus), bus->number,
devfn, pos, 4, &pcie_cap))
return 0;
printk("pcie_cap: %u", pcie_cap);

if (pcie_cap == 0xffffffff)
return 0;

printk("Checking vendor..\n");
if (PCI_EXT_CAP_ID(pcie_cap) == PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_VNDR) {
printk("reading domain_nr\n");
raw_pci_ext_ops->read(pci_domain_nr(bus), bus->number,
devfn, pos + 4, 4, &cap_data);
printk("cap_data: %u\n", cap_data);
if ((cap_data & 0xffff) == PCIE_VNDR_CAP_ID_FIXED_BAR)
return pos;
}

pos = pcie_cap >> 20;
printk("pos after shift: %i\n", pos);
}

printk("Returning from fixed_bar_cap\n");
return 0;
}


--
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com

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