From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Manuel Roeder <manuel_roeder@gmx.de>,
Michael Ott <michael@king-coder.de>,
Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>,
Mauro Barella <mbarella@vds-it.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.37 -> 2.6.38 regression] "mv64xxx: I2C bus locked, block: 1, time_left: 0" every few seconds
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:53:29 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120131025329.30e73a3f@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120131024429.2affbd1c@natsu>
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:44:29 +0600
Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 16:45:02 -0800
> Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
> > > - Michael Ott reported with Debian kernel 2.6.38-3 (which is closely
> > > based on stable v2.6.38.2):
> > >
> > > syslog tell me every few seconds:
> > > i2c i2c-0: mv64xxx: I2C bus locked, block: 1, time_left: 0
> > >
> > > - Manuel Roeder reported the same and found that upstream v2.6.38
> > > triggers the problem and v2.6.37.6 does not.
> > >
> > > - Roman Mamedov finds the bug present in Debian 3.1.6-1 (which
> > > is closely based on stable v3.1.6) and Debian 2.6.37-2 (based on
> > > stable v2.6.37.2) but not Debian 2.6.37-1 (based on mainline
> > > v2.6.37).
> > >
> > > The regression range described above seems a little inconsistent to
> > > me, so maybe there's something more going on.
> > >
> > Points to commit eda6bee6c7e67b5bd17bdbced0926f5687f686d5 (i2c-mv64xxx: send repeated START
> > between messages in xfer). Maybe you can back it out and see if it makes a difference.
>
> Hello,
>
> I have just confirmed that the problem still occurs in the current
> 3.2.2, and is indeed solved by rolling-back the referred commit.
>
> Should be noted that beside the "I2C bus locked" messages in dmesg, the described problem
> manifested itself in the inability to read the temperature sensor value or adjust the fan
> speed on the D-Link DNS-323. On all problematic kernels the built-in fan of DNS-323 does not
> rotate and this risks overheating the device and disks installed in it.
Also if anyone decides to further debug this, I should note that once a
'problematic' kernel has booted once on the device, a full power-off seems to
be required, before a 'good' kernel can work properly. Without this, even a
working kernel will manifest the same problem, it looks like something in the
hardware gets locked-up hard and stays that way even across reboots. If
someone's unaware of this, it can completely foil any attempt at git bisecting.
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With respect,
Roman
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with code he could not see.
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2012-01-01 7:32 ` [2.6.37 -> 2.6.38 regression] "mv64xxx: I2C bus locked, block: 1, time_left: 0" every few seconds Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-08 0:45 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-01-30 20:44 ` Roman Mamedov
2012-01-30 20:53 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
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