Re: Undecoded Interrupt with SiL3112 IDE?

Justin Cormack
2004-04-02T17:48:34Z

siimage driver has buggy interrupt handling - have seen similar
behaviour. It appears to be unmaintained. Recommend using libata
instead.

Justin

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 18:29, Johannes Deisenhofer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a recent problem with my sil3112 onboard SATA adapter.
>
> Starting after a while (sometimes after hours of uptime), i get this every few
> seconds:
>
> ----- snip -----
> irq 18: nobody cared!
> Call Trace:
> [<c0108f03>] __report_bad_irq+0x33/0x90
> [<c0108fe0>] note_interrupt+0x50/0x80
> [<c01091e9>] do_IRQ+0xa9/0x130
> [<c0105030>] default_idle+0x0/0x30
> [<c010795c>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
> [<c0105030>] default_idle+0x0/0x30
> [<c0105053>] default_idle+0x23/0x30
> [<c01050de>] cpu_idle+0x2e/0x40
> [<c0103055>] _stext+0x55/0x60
> [<c04e66f5>] start_kernel+0x155/0x160
>
> handlers:
> [<c02ae9f0>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x180)
> [<c02ae9f0>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x180)
> Disabling IRQ #18
> ----- snip -----
>
> This started recently (without changes in hardware or software) and drags down
> my machine quite a bit. No hangs / data losses, however.
>
> - There is always an interrupt storm (about 100000 IRQ in ca. 1 sec) on IRQ 18
> when this message is logged.
> - kernel 2.6.5-rc2
> - siimage driver (not libata)
> - two SATA drives on adapter, ST3120026AS and WDC WD1200JD-00FYB0
> - Asus A7N8X board (nforce2 chipset), latest bios
> - There is only the onboard SATA adapter on this IRQ. I've pulled the PCI card
> physically sharing the same IRQ line.
> - Same problem with kernel 2.4, although it handles it less gracefully (system
> freezes for some time).
> - Disabling ACPI doesn't change a thing (IRQ #11 will be disabled, then)
> - System has otherwise been stable.
> - After reboot, problem will disappear for a while
>
> I suspect some unhandled error condition of the sil chip. After disconnecting
> and reseating both SATA connectors, problems disappeared for two days.
> Coincidence?
>
> Anything I can test before I go and buy new cables?
>
> From lspci -v -xxxx
>
> 01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112
> SATARaid Controller (rev 01)
> Subsystem: CMD Technology Inc: Unknown device 6112
> Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
> I/O ports at 9800 [size=8]
> I/O ports at 9c00 [size=4]
> I/O ports at a000 [size=8]
> I/O ports at a400 [size=4]
> I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
> Memory at de005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=512K]
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> 00: 95 10 12 31 07 00 b0 02 01 00 04 01 01 20 00 00
> 10: 01 98 00 00 01 9c 00 00 01 a0 00 00 01 a4 00 00
> 20: 01 a8 00 00 00 50 00 de 00 00 00 00 95 10 12 61
> 30: 00 00 00 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00
> 40: 02 00 00 00 00 82 08 ba 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 60: 01 00 22 06 00 40 00 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 70: 00 00 20 00 00 e0 d5 37 00 00 20 00 00 c0 d5 37
> 80: 03 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 da a9 50 7e
> 90: 00 fc 01 01 0f ff 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 00
> a0: 01 60 8a 32 8a 32 dd 62 c1 10 92 43 01 40 09 40
> b0: 01 60 8a 32 8a 32 dd 62 c1 10 92 43 02 40 09 40
> c0: 84 01 00 00 13 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
>
> P.S.: I'm not on the linux-kernel list, but I read the archives
>
> Jo
>
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