Re: AU1550 Kernel bug detected[#1] clockevents_register_device

[Frank Neuber <frank.neuber@kernelport.de>]

Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 13:42 +0100 schrieb Frank Neuber:
> Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 13:11 +0100 schrieb Manuel Lauss:
> > > I think somting is wrong with PCI resource management here.
> > > I can't believe that nobody is using the PCI or Cardbus on the AU1550
> > > with the current kernel.
> > 
> > I'm no PCI expert, but I'm pretty sure resource assignment is done by
> > generic, not mips-specific, code.  Please try the linux-pci and/or
> > linux-kernel lists.
> At the moment I buld a matrix of working kernel versions regarding the
> PCI stuff on the AU1550
> 
> For now I can say that the versions
> 2.6.18, 2.6.18-rc1
> is crashing after showing the linux banner
> 

I found the problem for this error. It is because we compare 32 and 64
bit numbers in  __request_resource.
> 2.6.18-rc2, 2.6.18-rc4, 2.6.19, 2.6.20, 2.6.23 produce this:
> Skipping PCI bus scan due to resource conflict
I changed this:

diff --git a/include/asm-mips/mach-au1x00/au1000.h
b/include/asm-mips/mach-au1x00/au1000.h
index 3bdce91..8616c09 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/mach-au1x00/au1000.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/mach-au1x00/au1000.h
@@ -1679,12 +1679,21 @@ enum soc_au1200_ints {
 #define Au1500_PCI_MEM_START      0x440000000ULL
 #define Au1500_PCI_MEM_END        0x44FFFFFFFULL
 
+#if 1
+#define PCI_IO_START    0x00001000
+#define PCI_IO_END      0x000FFFFF
+#define PCI_MEM_START   0x40000000
+#define PCI_MEM_END     0x4FFFFFFF
+#define PCI_FIRST_DEVFN (0 << 3)
+#define PCI_LAST_DEVFN  (19 << 3)
+#else
 #define PCI_IO_START    (Au1500_PCI_IO_START + 0x1000)
 #define PCI_IO_END      (Au1500_PCI_IO_END)
 #define PCI_MEM_START   (Au1500_PCI_MEM_START)
 #define PCI_MEM_END     (Au1500_PCI_MEM_END)
 #define PCI_FIRST_DEVFN (0<<3)
 #define PCI_LAST_DEVFN  (19<<3)
+#endif
 
 #define IOPORT_RESOURCE_START 0x00001000 /* skip legacy probing */
 #define IOPORT_RESOURCE_END   0xffffffff


Now I think a have to look at 64 problems in the resource management of
th PCI subsystem

> 
> The version 2.6.24 has the same behavior as the current git head.
> 
> I will inform you about more results
> 
> Regards,
>  Frank 
>