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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oops in UHCI when encountering "host controller process error"
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:15:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49401540.8030609@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0812101006540.2175-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

Alan Stern wrote:
> The entry point is uhci_urb_enqueue().  You can do whatever you like 
> there, but bear in mind that it may be called in interrupt context.  
> uhci_sprint_schedule() should be fine.
>
> However I don't really see the point.  If the DMA pool allocations are 
> so badly messed up that the initial setup is wrong, why bother to 
> search any further?

I was trying to use it as a way of gauging where the damage was coming from.

But its moot now; Ian Campbell tracked it down to a missing TLB flush 
which explained all the weird non-deterministic symptoms we were 
seeing.  It all looks pretty good now.

    J


      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 23:42 Oops in UHCI when encountering "host controller process error" Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-16 14:03 ` Alan Stern
2008-10-16 22:02   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-16 23:34     ` Alan Stern
2008-10-17  1:00       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-17 14:58         ` Alan Stern
2008-10-17 15:20           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-21 20:02         ` Alan Stern
2008-10-21 20:41           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-09  0:04           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-09  1:04             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-09  2:13               ` Alan Stern
2008-12-09 18:24                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-09 18:43                   ` Alan Stern
2008-12-09 22:49                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-10 15:10                       ` Alan Stern
2008-12-10 19:15                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

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