i2c or eeprom enumeration problem

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On a NUMA system the eeprom interface in /sys

/sys/bus/i2c/drivers/eeprom/*

do not list all the DRAM eeproms. Only the DRAM from one node is listed. I have a 4 socket system with all 16 banks filled and see only 4 entries.

My suspicion (without looking at any code) is that the list of i2c devices with eeproms is collected once and this happens only on one CPU.
I sees not to be dynamic since when I read the files with taskset
restricting execution on certain sockets and cores the result doesn't change.

Is this known or expected (I hope not the latter)? Where should I look at? I assume that's in the i2c code?

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Let's cc the i2c list.

Motherboard manufacturer and model?

Most likely the SMBus is multiplexed and each CPU gets it's own SMBus segment, as was seen on the Tyan S4882. The EEPROMs you see are the ones on the segment which happens to be active at boot time.

The i2c subsystem (still) doesn't support that properly, although we have a quirk for the Tyan S4882 (see drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd756-s4882.c).

Jean Delvare

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Tyan S4985. It's a quad socket, quad core AMD system.

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OK. Maybe it uses the same trick as the S4882... Can you get the information from Tyan?

Please provide the output of i2cdetect for all the SMBus channels.

Jean Delvare

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I don't have a special link to Tyan but I can try. What information do you need?

[Strange, the lm_sensors package in F9 doesn't have i2cdetect anymore. Anything replacing it?]

I see two busses:

Installed I2C busses:

    i2c-0       smbus           SMBus nForce2 adapter at a000
    i2c-1       smbus           SMBus nForce2 adapter at a040

Using -a to get all the info on those busses I see this:

Bus 0:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 08 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 18 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 50: UU UU UU UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Bus 1:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 08 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 19 -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 2d -- -- 30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 48 49 -- -- -- -- -- -- 50: -- UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

This motherboard uses the NVidia nForce n4250QE chipset.

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Hi Ulrich,

Basically, whether the SMBus is multiplexed or not, and if it is, what is the SMBus topology (which mux chip is used and how to control it, how many segments, what devices are connected to each segment.)

Yes, the i2c tools (i2cdetect, i2cdump, the eeprom decoding scripts, etc.) now live in their separate package named i2c-tools:
http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/I2CTools
As far as I know, Hans de Goede packaged it in Fedora already.

[Note that the lm-sensors.org website is exceptionally slow today.]

-a wasn't needed...

SPD for 4 memory modules at 0x50 - 0x53. 0x18 could be a multiplexer, that's the address that was used by the 8-channel multiplexer on the S4882.

Apparently you have some Winbond hardware monitoring chip at 0x2d + 0x48 + 0x49. You might try sensors-detect.

There seems to be an extra EEPROM at 0x51, I'm curious what it is... Presumably not an SPD.

No idea what is at 0x19, it could be a multiplexer but I'd be surprised, as it doesn't make much sense to multiplex both SMBus channels.

We won't be able to re-use the S4882 code as is, as that one was using a completely different chip (AMD).

If you are willing to do some experiments with the board, I can give you commands to test (you'll need i2cdetect and i2cset). But maybe you'll prefer to wait to have additional information from Tyan first. Let me know.

Jean Delvare