Re: [PATCH 3.18 00/39] 3.18.7-stable review

Guenter Roeck
2015-02-09T22:04:07Z

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 05:37:36AM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 11:27:10AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > On 02/09/2015 01:33 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.7 release.
> > > There are 39 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > >
> > > Responses should be made by Wed Feb 11 08:33:11 UTC 2015.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.18.7-rc1.gz
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> > >
> >
> > Compiled and booted on my test system.
> >
> > I am seeing the following mei_me messages:
> >
> > mei_me 0000:00:16.0: version message write failed: ret = -5
> > mei_me 0000:00:16.0: hbm_start failed ret = -5
> > mei_me 0000:00:16.0: version message write failed: ret = -5
> > mei_me 0000:00:16.0: hbm_start failed ret = -5
> >
> > Not concerned - maybe Alexander Usyskin and Tomas Winkler
> > can take a look and see if this looks ok.
> >
> > Could this be related to:
> >
> > mei: clean reset bit before reset
> >
> > commit b13a65ef190e488e2761d65bdd2e1fe8a3a125f5 upstream.
>
> Odd, I wouldn't think that this commit would cause those errors to show
> up, if so, that's not good.
>
> Alexander, any thoughts?
>
mei_hbm_reset() is called just before the above message. Maybe the reset is not
complete ? The comment associated with the commit suggests that this can happen.
If so, there should also be warning "H_RST is set = 0x%08X" in the log.

Guenter