> The Oops'es are mostly in the khubd process, but they sometimes appear in other
> programs (insmod, ifconfig). They always lead to an immedate panic, and nothing
I suspect the ohci driver currently. I've been reviewing it a little and it
is full of code written by someone who does not know about pci write posting.
Specifically
writel(value, pciaddr)
is a queued operation. So
writel(value, foo)
delay
real(foo)
might not do the writel into the delay is over or during it. PCI makes
guarantees that
- writes will go out in order and will be merged only if prefetchable set
- multiple writes to the same addr will remain multiple writes
- reads will not complete until the writes do
This applies in both directions - bus mastering nasties abound notably
writel(STOP, reg->dmactrl)
kfree(buffer)
is dangerous
You have to do
writel(STOP, reg->dmactrl);
[posted]
readl(reg->dmactrl)
[read forces write, read reply will follow any DMA
pending the other way]
I've not attempted to fix it yet
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