Re: Lenovo 3000 N100 i8042 problems

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 04 September 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:16:15PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > > > legacy mode only has a bug that doesn't matter to Windows, and active mux 
> > > > may have some of the usual problems but nothing I particularly noticed.
> > > > 
> > > > I noticed that, when my i8042 would stop working, it would generally have 
> > > > just delivered one mouse interrupt to CPU1 after never previously doing 
> > > > so. Perhaps there's some sort of deadlock in the Linux i8042 driver when 
> > > > both cores are unexpectedly getting interrupts from the two devices at 
> > > > once? I could understand there being a Linux bug only triggered by quirky 
> > > > hardware that only applies to legacy mode, which was just uncovered by 
> > > > this patch.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I am not sure, internally we the kernel still deals with 2 interrupt
> > > sources (KBD and AUX) regardless whether it is in legacy or active
> > > multiplexing mode...
> > > 
> > > Does it take long to trigger the bug? You coudl try doing "echo 1 >
> > > /sys/modules/i8042/parameters/debug" and thend me dmesg or
> > > /var/log/messages after the bug was triggered - I might see something
> > > there. But please be aware that if you send me such a log I can decode
> > > everything that you have been typing...
> > 
> > It's usually within an hour of the right usage pattern. I'll try to 
> > trigger it with debugging on while not typing anything secret Thursday 
> > evening.
> 
> Attached. 

That is untruth :))

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Dmitry