Re: 2.4.23 IDE hang on boot with two single-channel controllers

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 18:31:13 EST



[ I've just found it in my mail-archive :-). ]

On Monday 26 of January 2004 16:56, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> (watch crossposting when replying all)
>
> I'm hoping to reach the maintainer of the Linux IDE driver for the
> Compaq TriFlex controller. I have a problem with this driver when used
> with a Compaq Armada 7730MT while docked in the base station.
>
> The driver appears to only support one triflex controller, due to a
> missing check (that other chipset drivers have) that should prevent it
> from registering a /proc interface more than once. The result is that
> it hangs on boot in proc_ide_create() in an infinite loop.

Please send outputs of 'lspci' and 'dmesg' commands.

> triflex.c:
>
> static unsigned int __init init_chipset_triflex(struct pci_dev *dev,
> const char *name)
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> ide_pci_register_host_proc(&triflex_proc);
> #endif
> return 0;
> }
>
> It also appears that triflex_get_info() doesn't support more that one
> controller.

Yep, that's true.

> I won't go into more detail until I can establish who might care :)

I might care ;-).

Does this patch fixes hang?
Does 'cat /proc/ide/triflex' produce sane output?

Cheers,
--bart

linux-2.4.23-root/drivers/ide/pci/triflex.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++---------
linux-2.4.23-root/drivers/ide/pci/triflex.h | 5 ++-
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/ide/pci/triflex.c~ide_triflex_proc_fix drivers/ide/pci/triflex.c
--- linux-2.4.23/drivers/ide/pci/triflex.c~ide_triflex_proc_fix 2004-02-17 23:40:34.324345576 +0100
+++ linux-2.4.23-root/drivers/ide/pci/triflex.c 2004-02-18 00:22:53.578320296 +0100
@@ -44,15 +44,17 @@
#include "ide_modes.h"
#include "triflex.h"

-static struct pci_dev *triflex_dev;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+static u8 triflex_proc;

-static int triflex_get_info(char *buf, char **addr, off_t offset, int count)
-{
- char *p = buf;
- int len;
+#define TRIFLEX_MAX_DEVS 2
+static struct pci_dev *triflex_devs[TRIFLEX_MAX_DEVS];
+static unsigned int n_triflex_devs;

- struct pci_dev *dev = triflex_dev;
+static int triflex_info(char *buffer, struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
unsigned long bibma = pci_resource_start(dev, 4);
+ char *p = buffer;
u8 c0 = 0, c1 = 0;
u32 pri_timing, sec_timing;

@@ -87,11 +89,23 @@ static int triflex_get_info(char *buf, c
p += sprintf(p, "DMA\n");
p += sprintf(p, "PIO\n");

+ return p - buffer;
+}
+
+static int triflex_get_info(char *buf, char **addr, off_t offset, int count)
+{
+ char *p = buf;
+ unsigned int i, len;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < n_triflex_devs; i++)
+ buf += triflex_info(buf, triflex_devs[i]);
+
len = (p - buf) - offset;
*addr = buf + offset;
-
+
return len > count ? count : len;
}
+#endif

static int triflex_tune_chipset(ide_drive_t *drive, u8 xferspeed)
{
@@ -211,9 +225,13 @@ static unsigned int __init init_chipset_
const char *name)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
- ide_pci_register_host_proc(&triflex_proc);
+ triflex_devs[n_triflex_devs++] = dev;
+ if (!triflex_proc) {
+ triflex_proc = 1;
+ ide_pci_register_host_proc(&triflex_procs);
+ }
#endif
- return 0;
+ return 0;
}

static int __devinit triflex_init_one(struct pci_dev *dev,
@@ -222,11 +240,10 @@ static int __devinit triflex_init_one(st
ide_pci_device_t *d = &triflex_devices[id->driver_data];
if (dev->device != d->device)
BUG();
-
+
ide_setup_pci_device(dev, d);
- triflex_dev = dev;
MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;
-
+
return 0;
}

diff -puN drivers/ide/pci/triflex.h~ide_triflex_proc_fix drivers/ide/pci/triflex.h
--- linux-2.4.23/drivers/ide/pci/triflex.h~ide_triflex_proc_fix 2004-02-17 23:58:11.698600256 +0100
+++ linux-2.4.23-root/drivers/ide/pci/triflex.h 2004-02-18 00:27:28.152578664 +0100
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@

static unsigned int __devinit init_chipset_triflex(struct pci_dev *, const char *);
static void init_hwif_triflex(ide_hwif_t *);
-static int triflex_get_info(char *, char **, off_t, int);

static ide_pci_device_t triflex_devices[] __devinitdata = {
{
@@ -34,7 +33,9 @@ static ide_pci_device_t triflex_devices[
};

#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
-static ide_pci_host_proc_t triflex_proc __initdata = {
+static int triflex_get_info(char *, char **, off_t, int);
+
+static ide_pci_host_proc_t triflex_procs __initdata = {
.name = "triflex",
.set = 1,
.get_info = triflex_get_info,

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