From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Subject: Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:46:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172558799.11949.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702261315080.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
> USB controller issues? We used to have these really hard-to-debug problems
> with the USB controller being active and having had the BIOS set up the
> command queues etc. Really subtle. It's why we now have PCI quirks for
> shutting up (most) USB controllers very early.
On powermacs or powerbooks, the USB controller is shut down by the
firmware when we call the "quiesce" OF call from prom_init.c, which
happens before the kernel relocates itself to 0 and takes over memory.
Unless we fucked up something in there, I wouldn't expect that to be the
cause.
> If there is some USB controller that we miss, or that sets up its command
> chain to some unexpected area (so that USB is active and corrupting memory
> even very early on), that could explain it.
Did we setup the OHCI controller when the crash happen ? Maybe we broke
something subtle in the USB stack ?
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200612112059.kBBKx1j7022473@hera.kernel.org>
2007-02-26 0:00 ` Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough David Woodhouse
2007-02-26 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 0:45 ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-26 1:17 ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-26 3:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 4:01 ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-26 4:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 16:24 ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-26 6:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-02-26 15:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-26 16:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-26 16:44 ` Milton Miller
2007-02-26 20:57 ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-26 21:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-27 6:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-02-26 15:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-26 20:51 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-26 19:27 ` john stultz
2007-02-26 22:27 ` Paul TBBle Hampson
2007-02-27 6:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-27 11:58 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 6:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-28 10:13 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-01 0:30 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-03-12 23:01 ` Paul TBBle Hampson
2007-03-13 3:03 ` Kumar Gala
2007-03-13 7:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-16 7:20 ` Paul TBBle Hampson
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