Kernel 2.4.9 locks up solidly with USB and SMP
Hello,
Please CC any replies to me directly.
With kernel version 2.4.9, my system locks up solidly when I run with SMP
enabled and attempt to print anything to my USB printer. I have seen
this behavior for the last few kernel revs.
SMP without USB seems to work properly. USB in uniprocessor mode is also working properly.
I have usbcore and usb-uhci loaded as modules.
My motherboard is a Tyan Thunderbolt S1837 with two Intel Pentium 3s at 450 MHz. and 256 MB of memory. The output from "lspci -v" is appended to this e-mail. I'm not sure what other information I could provide that would help isolate this problem. I would be happy to provide more - please ask.
It is unclear to me if I am doing something wrong, if this is a bug in the kernel, or a bug in my hardware. Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
====== output of lspci -v ======
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX Host bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX AGP bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: fd600000-fe6fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f1400000-f54fffff
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ef80 [size=32]
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
00:0b.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec 7896
Subsystem: Adaptec: Unknown device 080f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 BIST result: 00
I/O ports at e400 [disabled] [size=256] Memory at febfe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at febc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
00:0b.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec 7896
Subsystem: Adaptec: Unknown device 080f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 BIST result: 00
I/O ports at e800 [disabled] [size=256] Memory at febff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V, AudioPCI128
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at ef00 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at febfd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at ee80 [size=64] Memory at fea00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Expansion ROM at fe900000 [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev
03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G400 16Mb SGRAM Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at f2000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Memory at fe6fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at fd800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at fe6e0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0
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Hello,
Quoted 9 lines · Francois Romieu
Andy Stewart <[email protected]> :
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With kernel version 2.4.9, my system locks up solidly when I run with
SMP enabled and attempt to print anything to my USB printer. I have
seen this behavior for the last few kernel revs.Could you pass "nmi_watchdog=1" as an argument to the kernel during the boot and see if you get an Oops this way ?
I tried this and did not see any printout on my screen. I waited over a minute after the lockup before rebooting. There's nothing in the system log file, either. Just hard lockup. :-(
Thank you for the suggestion.
Andy
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Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org
Quoted 4 lines
SMP without USB seems to work properly. USB in uniprocessor mode is also working properly.
I have usbcore and usb-uhci loaded as modules.
Use the uhci module instead and it ought to be better
Quoted 6 lines · Alan Cox
Quoted 4 lines
SMP without USB seems to work properly. USB in uniprocessor mode is also working properly.
I have usbcore and usb-uhci loaded as modules.
Use the uhci module instead and it ought to be better
Using the uhci module has indeed solved the problem.
Thank you!
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Andy Stewart
Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org