Re: BCM4312 Fails when xdm is started

Michael Buesch
2008-11-24T10:56:53Z

On Monday 24 November 2008 09:49:38 Yuval Hager wrote:
> On Sunday 23 November 2008, Larry Finger wrote:
> > From a config file posted earlier, the OP is using SLAB. Is there any point
> > in trying SLUB?
>
> Another try, not sure what it means:
>
> * Added CONFIG_SLUB and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
>
> * boot parameters: root=/dev/sda3 debug memory_corruption_check=1 devres.log=1 debug_objects debugpat
> acpi.debug_layer=0x00410002 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff acpi=off apic=debug nolapic irqpoll pci=noacpi slub_debug=FZPU
>
> * cat /proc/interrupts is
> CPU0
> 0: 16658 XT-PIC-XT timer
> 1: 289 XT-PIC-XT i8042
> 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade
> 3: 60 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb4
> 5: 9163 XT-PIC-XT sata_via, HDA Intel
> 7: 0 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb3
> 8: 2 XT-PIC-XT rtc
> 10: 1712 XT-PIC-XT b43
> 11: 131 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb1
> 12: 706 XT-PIC-XT i8042
> 14: 0 XT-PIC-XT ide0
> 15: 0 XT-PIC-XT ide1
> NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC: 0 Local timer interrupts
> RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
> CAL: 0 Function call interrupts
> TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
> TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts
> SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
> ERR: 0
> MIS: 0
>
> * lspci -d 14e4:4312 -x
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)
> 00: e4 14 12 43 06 01 10 00 02 00 80 02 08 00 00 00
> 10: 04 c0 ff fd 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3c 10 71 13
> 30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
>
> * xset dpms force standby
> * wake up
> * dmesg is virtually the same as before, complaining about nobody handling irq 10 and disabling it.

Actually, b43 _does_ use IRQ10 now.
I guess the card dies such a horrible death, that it also asserts the IRQ line forever.

> * /proc/interrupts now is
> 0: 80987 XT-PIC-XT timer
> 1: 1027 XT-PIC-XT i8042
> 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade
> 3: 60 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb4
> 5: 10400 XT-PIC-XT sata_via, HDA Intel
> 7: 0 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb3
> 8: 2 XT-PIC-XT rtc
> 10: 200000 XT-PIC-XT b43
> 11: 131 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb1
> 12: 3059 XT-PIC-XT i8042
> 14: 0 XT-PIC-XT ide0
> 15: 0 XT-PIC-XT ide1
> NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC: 0 Local timer interrupts
> RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
> CAL: 0 Function call interrupts
> TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
> TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts
> SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
> ERR: 0
> MIS: 0
>
> * Now check this out - the output of lspci -d 14e4:4312 -x
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev ff)
> 00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>
> (I double checked this)
>
> huh?

Hah, interesting. I think your hardware may be faulty, in fact.
To me it really seems like the mainboard has power failures on the PCI bus.

This is a laptop, so you can't pull random hardware? Can you run some
hardware burn-in tests like mprime (http://mersenne.org/freesoft/) or memtest?
If that doesn't help, can you try with another operating system?

--
Greetings Michael.