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From: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
To: Tanaka Takahisa <mc74hc00@gmail.com>
Cc: Joseph Salisbury <josephtsalisbury@gmail.com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
	linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [v3.8 Regression] watchdog: sp5100_tco: Add SB8x0 chipset support
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:04:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5126B617.6010405@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHh0gOgiSjTYvEzim-7+yEhU74c5PVV=2ScTnaJ15SPY=y-WqA@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/18/2013 12:14 PM, Tanaka Takahisa wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
>> The bug report tested a kernel with the patches. However, he reports the kernel panic still occurs[0].
> I understood. I guess this problem conflicts with the watchdog MMIO
> address (*) written in SB700 chipset and other resource. So, I made a
> patch which gets rid of the code considered to cause the problem. If
> this patch is applied, although the SP5100 and SB7x0 chipsets can't
> use watchdog function any longer, I'm sure attached patch resolve the
> problem. The SB800 or later chipsets can be used as before.
> (*)This address is obtained from allocate_resource() function.
>
> I'm sorry to trouble you, but Would you confirm whether attached patch
> solves a problem?
> If there is no problem in this patch, I will submit this patch to a
> linux-watchdog community.

This patch did resolve the issue.  The bug reporter states the panic no 
longer happens and the system boots.  Thanks so much for your assistance.

>
>
>> I've requested a digital image or screen capture of the panic.  Is
>> there any additional debug information you thing would be helpful?
> I'm interested in the I/O resource of PC in which the problem has
> occurred, So, I want the result of 'cat /proc/iomem'. When 'cat
> /proc/iomem' is performed, I don't care about whether sp5100_tco
> driver is loaded.

The I/O data can be seen at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1116835/+attachment/3540738/+files/iomem.txt

>
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Takahisa


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-22  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-14 16:07 [v3.8 Regression] watchdog: sp5100_tco: Add SB8x0 chipset support Joseph Salisbury
2013-02-15  7:32 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2013-02-15 14:54   ` Joseph Salisbury
2013-02-17  9:44     ` Tanaka Takahisa
2013-02-18  3:13       ` Joseph Salisbury
2013-02-18  7:26         ` Joseph Salisbury
2013-02-18 17:14           ` Tanaka Takahisa
2013-02-22  0:04             ` Joseph Salisbury [this message]
2013-02-23  6:14               ` Tanaka Takahisa

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