[PATCH] AHA152x driver hangs on PCMCIA card eject, kernel 2.4.22-pre6

Bhavesh P. Davda
2003-07-15T21:42:05Z

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Juergen, David; please review this patch, and recommend that Marcelo apply
this patch if you think it is okay... Thanks!

Attached is a patch against linux-2.4.22-pre6, to fix a hang problem when an
Adaptec SlimSCSI (PCMCIA) adapter is ejected from a PCMCIA card reader (e.g.
yenta/TI1225 based).

The fix involves:

1. A change to the common aha152x driver to ignore an interrupt in the
top-half handler if it cannot read valid data from the I/O ports (possibly
due to a bad host-adapter chip or an ejected PCMCIA card). This way, a
shared interrupt handler (e.g. yenta) can pick up the interrupt if the IRQ
is really meant for it. This is where the original hang was taking place;
the aha152x bottom half was getting into an infinite loop, though the
SlimSCSI card had been ejected, and the actual IRQ was meant for yenta.

2. A change to the aha152x_cs stub driver to not use the SCSI error-handling
thread code. The aha152x_cs driver calls scsi_unregister_module() as a
queued timer task when it gets a CS_EVENT_CARD_REMOVAL event, which causes
scsi_unregister_host() to do a down() on a semaphore, calling schedule(),
when executing the timer_bh for the timer.

Thanks!

- Bhavesh
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Bhavesh P. Davda E-mail : bhavesh@avaya.com
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diff -Naur linux-2.4.22-pre6/drivers/scsi/aha152x.c linux-2.4.22-bpd/drivers/scsi/aha152x.c
--- linux-2.4.22-pre6/drivers/scsi/aha152x.c 2003-06-13 08:51:36.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.4.22-bpd/drivers/scsi/aha152x.c 2003-07-15 14:38:27.000000000 -0600
@@ -1936,6 +1936,23 @@
return;
}

+ /*
+ * Read a couple of registers that are known to not be all 1's. If
+ * we read all 1's (-1), that means that either:
+ * a. The host adapter chip has gone bad, and we cannot control it,
+ * OR
+ * b. The host adapter is a PCMCIA card that has been ejected
+ * In either case, we cannot do anything with the host adapter at
+ * this point in time. So just ignore the interrupt and return.
+ * In the latter case, the interrupt might actually be meant for
+ * someone else sharing this IRQ, and that driver will handle it
+ */
+ rev = GETPORT(REV);
+ dmacntrl0 = GETPORT(DMACNTRL0);
+ if ((rev == 0xFF) && (dmacntrl0 == 0xFF)) {
+ return;
+ }
+
/* no more interrupts from the controller, while we're busy.
INTEN is restored by the BH handler */
CLRBITS(DMACNTRL0, INTEN);
diff -Naur linux-2.4.22-pre6/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/aha152x_stub.c linux-2.4.22-bpd/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/aha152x_stub.c
--- linux-2.4.22-pre6/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/aha152x_stub.c 2001-12-21 10:41:55.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.4.22-bpd/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/aha152x_stub.c 2003-07-15 14:41:20.000000000 -0600
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@

/* Configure card */
driver_template.module = &__this_module;
+ /*
+ * Don't use the SCSI error handling thread. This causes schedule() to
+ * be called from the timer_bh when the AHA152x card is ejected
+ */
+ driver_template.use_new_eh_code = 0;
link->state |= DEV_CONFIG;

tuple.DesiredTuple = CISTPL_CFTABLE_ENTRY;