punit semaphore timed out on Intel Atom x5-Z8300 (again: just plain text for the kernel group)

From: Daniel Antlinger
Date: Mon Feb 08 2016 - 09:08:16 EST


Hello David!

Larry Finger is helping me with a problem and gave me your mail.

I try to make a special hardware working but get and semaphore message:

[ 5.999650] i2c_designware 808622C1:06: punit semaphore timed out, resetting
[ 5.999673] i2c_designware 808622C1:06: PUNIT SEM: 2
[ 5.999677] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 5.999691] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 332 at
/build/linux-gcePop/linux-4.4.0/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-baytrail.c:112
baytrail_i2c_acquire+0x139/0x1e0 i2c_designware_platform
<https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs/issues/20#issuecomment-181275934>

Hardware:
http://giadatech.com/index.php?act=pShow&id=145

Full dmesg:
https://nopaste.me/view/09614908

lsmod:
https://nopaste.me/view/28d7ee62

Kernel-Configuration:
https://nopaste.me/view/e58004e7

lspci:
https://nopaste.me/view/b9f1f6e9

lshw:
https://nopaste.me/view/4fac8ff1

This is the github communication where I have met larry (lwfinger on
github):
https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs/issues/20#issuecomment-181275934

It would be nice if you have hints or informations.

I tried SEMAPHORE_TIMEOUT set to 300 in
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-baytrail.c (didng change anyhting)

Thx and bye
Daniel