Re: OHCI USB hangs during intensive use, nVidia MCP78S chipset, fewquestions to help me find the problem.

From: Robert Hancock
Date: Sat Jun 27 2009 - 13:27:25 EST


On 06/27/2009 09:51 AM, Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
Hello,

after upgrading my CPU from single core to multicore and mainboard I started
to have problem with OHCI USB controller. It hangs during big data transfer
(USB hdd drive, pendrive, IRDA dongle or adsl modem). The result of hang is
usb device is not responding. This is the only error I found. I would like to
learn why it hangs and fix it. I tried kernels 2.6.27-30 and most popular
Linux distributions. Adding noapic or acpi=noirq parameter to kernel boot line
almost workarounds the problem, disabling tickless kernel: CONFIG_NO_HZ also
makes usb ohci hanging a little bit less. Usb 1.1 devices still hangs but
seldom: only transferring over 100MiB file to/from usb hdd or downloading
CentOS dvd iso from ftp or torrent can hang usb. I do not want to be left with
workaround. I want to fix it. Can you tell me how to find the issue and where
to look for faulty code? By looking at kernel parameters which cures the usb
ohci bug it must be something wrong with IRQs.

Are you getting any kernel errors/messages in dmesg? In any case you should post your dmesg output from bootup.
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