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From: "Michael S. Zick" <lkml@morethan.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Null Pointer BUG in uhci_hcd
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:22:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907081522.22026.lkml@morethan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0907081555310.22105-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Wed July 8 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> 
> > But, then again, we might just get lucky:
> > ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: Unlink after no-IRQ?  Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ.
> > usb 1-5: khubd timed out on ep0in len=18/64
> 
> Like I've been telling you all along, the hardware isn't working.  
>

That sounds very fragile.

> I suspect it's worse than a simple interrupt-routing mistake.
> 

I would not object to your removing that one mistake - that is one less
to contend with.

> > > > For more information enable CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and CONFIG_DEBUG_FS, then 
> > > > see what's sitting in the usb/uhci/* files in debugfs.
> > > > 
> > 

Fours up-time - nothing written to dmesg since boot -
Just the usual hard-lockup.

Also - something in the combined fix/diagnostic patch
disable any sensing of external usb events.
So I couldn't very well poke devices at it.  ;)

> > Anything in particular to look for/at?
> 
> Just post the contents of those files.
> 

Will capture that information during this afternoon's testing.

Mike
> Alan Stern
> 
> 
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-05 22:20 Null Pointer BUG in uhci_hcd Michael S. Zick
2009-07-07  9:13 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-07-07 14:08   ` Oliver Neukum
2009-07-07 14:32     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-07 15:10     ` Alan Stern
2009-07-07 15:23       ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-07 15:31         ` Alan Stern
2009-07-07 15:43           ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-07 17:28             ` Alan Stern
2009-07-07 17:56               ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-07 19:21                 ` Alan Stern
2009-07-07 19:51                   ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-07 20:00                     ` Alan Stern
2009-07-07 20:52                       ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-07 21:24                         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-08 19:54                           ` Alan Stern
2009-07-08 14:43                   ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-08 16:30                     ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-08 16:38                       ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-11 19:07                         ` uhci_hcd fails to off-line device/hub on error condition Michael S. Zick
2009-07-12 15:16                           ` Alan Stern
2009-07-08 19:57                       ` Null Pointer BUG in uhci_hcd Alan Stern
2009-07-08 20:22                         ` Michael S. Zick [this message]
2009-07-08 21:02                           ` Alan Stern
2009-07-08 22:31                             ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-09 14:18                               ` Alan Stern
2009-07-08 23:56                         ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-08 23:59                           ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-09 14:20                           ` Alan Stern
2009-07-09 14:46                             ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-09 15:08                               ` Alan Stern
2009-07-09 16:07                                 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-07-09 20:58                                   ` Michael S. Zick

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