Re: 2.6.13.1 locks machine after some time, 2.6.12.5 work fine

[Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@tbdnetworks.com>]

Hi,

I'll apply the patch right away and will report back.

Best,
  Norbert

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:25:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Norbert Kiesel wrote:
> > 
> > diff is appended.  Regarding the -rc3 and friends, currently I can't as
> > I jumped directly from 12.5 to 13.  This is my desktop at work, so I
> > try to keep it somewhat stable.  However, if you have a guess which
> > versions to try, I can give it a spin.  It takes some time though to
> > test, as the lockup normally only happens after 1 hour or so (although
> > I could propably speed this up by doing lots of disk IO).
> 
> No need. The numbers made it clear: this is the same bug that hit the 
> hpt366 driver:
> 
> 	 0000:00:10.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 0649
> 			Ultra ATA/100 PCI to ATA Host Controller (rev 01)
> 	 ...
> 	 00: 95 10 49 06 07 00 90 02 01 00 04 01 00 40 00 00
> 	 10: 01 b8 00 00 01 bc 00 00 01 c0 00 00 01 c4 00 00
> 	 20: 01 c8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 95 10 49 06
> 	-30: 00 00 00 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 01 02 04
> 	+30: 01 00 00 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 01 02 04
> 
> and the exact same cause too. 
> 
> I wonder who the _hell_ has been sprinkling these _byte_ writes to the ROM
> enable logic around?
> 
> I bet this will fix it..
> 
> 		Linus
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c b/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c
> --- a/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c
> +++ b/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c
> @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ static unsigned int __devinit init_chips
>  
>  #ifdef __i386__
>  	if (dev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].start) {
> -		pci_write_config_byte(dev, PCI_ROM_ADDRESS, dev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].start | PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE);
> +		pci_write_config_dword(dev, PCI_ROM_ADDRESS, dev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].start | PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE);
>  		printk(KERN_INFO "%s: ROM enabled at 0x%08lx\n", name, dev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].start);
>  	}
>  #endif
> 
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