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

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Sat Jul 31 2004 - 09:43:54 EST



Hi Bart,

This triflex fix hasnt been merged in v2.4 mainline, it looks
pretty straightforward. And it works for Jeremy.

Shall we merge this in 2.4.28-pre?

TIA

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:34:44AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> [ 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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