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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time
Date: 9 Nov 2000 14:54:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8uf9va$hi8$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5E932F578EBD111AC3F00A0C96B1E6F07DBDC82@orsmsx31.jf.intel.com> <3A0B27E3.7D10AB64@linux.com>

In article <3A0B27E3.7D10AB64@linux.com>, David Ford  <david@linux.com> wrote:
>
>The oddity is that kdb shows the machine to lock up on the popf in
>pci_conf_write_word()+0x2c.  I never did get around to digging up this
>routine and looking at the code, but I suspect this is a final return
>from the routine.  I'm rather confused however, I have no idea why a
>flags pop would hang the hardware.

Educated guess: it enables interrupts, after it has done something to
the hardware that causes an infinite stream of them.

		Linus
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-09 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-09 17:06 [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time Dunlap, Randy
2000-11-09 17:15 ` Greg KH
2000-11-09 22:40 ` David Ford
2000-11-09 22:54   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2000-11-11  9:49   ` Harald Nordgård-Hansen
     [not found] <3427.973738139@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
2000-11-09  5:40 ` David Ford
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-09  0:35 David Ford
2000-11-09  0:50 ` Georg Nikodym
2000-11-09  1:27   ` David Ford
2000-11-09  4:08     ` Greg KH
2000-11-09  4:19       ` David Ford
2000-11-09  5:59         ` Greg KH
2000-11-09  6:55           ` David Ford
2000-11-09  7:05           ` David Ford
2000-11-09  7:39           ` David Ford
2000-11-09  1:12 ` Keith Owens

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