Re: [Openipmi-developer] modprobe ipmi_si hangs under 2.6.30-rc5

From: Ferenc Wagner
Date: Tue May 19 2009 - 02:27:08 EST


Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:33:23PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Well there have only been a handful of changes to ipmi since 2.6.29.
>>> Could you try a mini-bisection?
>>>
>>> Apply revert-1.patch, test
>>> Apply revert-2.patch, test
>>> Apply revert-3.patch, test
>>> Apply revert-4.patch, test
>>
>> After applying revert-1.patch, modprobe runs OK:
>>
>> [ 86.968156] IPMI System Interface driver.
>> [ 86.976276] ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified smic state machine at i/o address 0xecf4, slave address 0x20, irq 0
>> [ 87.117630] ipmi: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x0002a2, prod_id: 0x0000, dev_id: 0x00)
>> [ 87.133078] IPMI smic interface initialized
>>
>> I guess there's no point in trying the rest.
>
> I think I see the problem. Can you try the patch at the end of the
> email? I can't test it because I don't have an IPMI 1.0 sytem.

I tried your patch on top of 2.6.30-rc6. Unfortunately it did not
help (nor made /proc/ipmi/ipmi0 appear at least).

>> When loading with debug options, it still produces insane amount of
>> debug messages continuously (first 671 lines of it attached).
>
> Yes, full debugging generates a ton of output, it logs everything it does
> in that case.

My concern is that it does something too often, not letting the CPU
enter deep sleep states, perhaps. Or is that also an artifact of
debugging?
--
Thanks,
Feri.
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