Re: kernel panic on 2.6.24/iTCO_wdt not rebooting machine

["Denys Fedoryshchenko" <denys@visp.net.lb>]

I check, watchdog still doesn't work with acpi=off, nor with pnpacpi=off
I will try to check technical documents about chipset, to find any reference 
to watchdog registers, maybe i can see there something useful.

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:39:08 -0500, Len Brown wrote
> On Friday 01 February 2008 14:15, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:11:41 -0500, Len Brown wrote
> > > 
> > > What do you see if you build with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n
> > > 
> > > Does it work better if you boot with "acpi=off"?
> > > if yes, how about with just pnpacpi=off?
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > -Len
> > 
> > It is not very easy to test. About bug - most probably it is related to 
third 
> > party ESFQ patch, i will drop it and then test more properly when i will 
be 
> > able to make watchdog work fine. But more important i notice - that 
iTCO_wdt 
> > is not working at all. I think hrtimers doesn't change anything on that.
> > About testing, i cannot take even small risk now(and near 3-5 days) by 
> > changing kernel options, i set now maximum available set of watchdogs, 
cause 
> > there is noone to maintain server, area is unreachable because of snow 
and 
> > bad weather.
> > 
> > Do you think reasonable to try acpi / pnpacpi with iTCO_wdt to make it 
work? 
> > Maybe just registers addresses or way how TCO watchdog activated changed 
on 
> > this chipset?
> 
> yes, i'm wondering if the changes in IO resource reservations
> in the PNPACPI layer are interfering with the native driver.
> 
> unfortunately, if you boot with acpi=off or pnpacpi=off, you may
> run into other, unrelated, issues (or not).
> 
> one way to isolate the problem is if you revert these two lines
> from their 2.6.24 values to their 2.6.23 values by applying this patch:
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/pnp.h b/include/linux/pnp.h
> index 2a6d62c..16b46aa 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pnp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pnp.h
> @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
>  #include <linux/errno.h>
>  #include <linux/mod_devicetable.h>
> 
> -#define PNP_MAX_PORT		40
> -#define PNP_MAX_MEM		12
> +#define PNP_MAX_PORT		8
> +#define PNP_MAX_MEM		4
>  #define PNP_MAX_IRQ		2
>  #define PNP_MAX_DMA		2
>  #define PNP_NAME_LEN		50


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Denys Fedoryshchenko
Technical Manager
Virtual ISP S.A.L.