Matthias Dahl wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I am resending the following message because I didn't get any response so far
> and in addition I am putting it on cc' to the vdr devel list. I'd look into
> this issue myself, yet I don't have the necessary time to dive into the DVB
> tree. So please, if anyone knows how to debug this or has any hint where the
> problem could be located... I'd be more than grateful to hear about it.
>
> By the way, just today after a few minutes of uptime with vdr 1.7.0, I got
> those (increased the CAM check interval to 5 seconds btw):
>
> vdr: [3280] ERROR: can't write to CI adapter on device 0: Input/output error
> vdr: [3280] ERROR: can't write to CI adapter on device 0: Invalid argument
>
> And the CAM stopped working until I restarted vdr. In one forum post someone
> reported about similar problems with MythTV, so it's becoming more and more
> likely that this is indeed a problem within the dvb tree. And if it's a SMP
> problem, it should get fixed because multicore systems will be everywhere
> pretty soon.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hello all.
>
> After minutes or hours or days of running vdr 1.4.7, I get the following
> messages in my syslog:
>
> dvb_ca adapter 0: CAM tried to send a buffer larger than the ecount size!
> dvb_ca adapter 0: DVB CAM link initialisation failed :(
>
> When running vdr 1.6.x, the problems are even more frequent/worse and I get
> those:
>
> dvb_ca adapter 0: CAM tried to send a buffer larger than the link buffer
> size (192 > 128)!
> vdr: [3140] ERROR: can't write to CI adapter on device 0: Input/output error
> dvb_ca adapter 0: CAM tried to send a buffer larger than the ecount size!
> dvb_ca adapter 0: DVB CAM link initialisation failed :(
>
> The result is always the same, the CAM stops decrypting and I have to restart
> vdr. After a lot of searching around, I've learnt that I am not the only one
> with those problems and they seem to be related to multi core systems. I read
> that pining vdr down to one CPU core might help... and indeed it did.
>
> This cannot be a hardware related issue because...
>
> 1) meanwhile I switched from a NForce 590 SLI to a X48 chipset and thus also
> from an AMD64 X2 5600+ (Winchester) to an Intel Core2Duo E8400 (Wolfdale)
>
> 2) I swapped my KNC One DVB-C Plus for a new one
>
> And the problems persist.
>
> I've already written a report to the vdr list which was unfortunately ignored
> and besides it looks more like a dvb issue itself.
>
> I was unable to test the kernel with nosmp or similar (which was reported by
> others to work just fine) because I need this machine to work on.
>
> I've attached detailed informations about my system and I'd be more than happy
> to help fix this once and for all, so one can savely rely on vdr again.
>
> Last but not least, I am using a AlphaCrypt Light module with 3.15 firmware.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for every help.
>
> Best regards,
> Matthias Dahl
Please test the attached patch (untested because I do not own this kind
of hardware). Please save your work before loading the patched driver,
since a locking bug might crash your machine...
CU
Oliver
--
----------------------------------------------------------------
VDR Remote Plugin 0.4.0: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/
----------------------------------------------------------------
diff -r cbfa05ad2711 linux/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-av.c
--- a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-av.c Fri Aug 01 08:23:41 2008 -0300
+++ b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-av.c Sat Aug 16 06:21:58 2008 +0200
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ struct budget_av {
struct tasklet_struct ciintf_irq_tasklet;
int slot_status;
struct dvb_ca_en50221 ca;
+ struct mutex camlock;
u8 reinitialise_demod:1;
};
@@ -136,6 +137,8 @@ static int ciintf_read_attribute_mem(str
if (slot != 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ mutex_lock(&budget_av->camlock);
+
saa7146_setgpio(budget_av->budget.dev, 1, SAA7146_GPIO_OUTHI);
udelay(1);
@@ -144,6 +147,9 @@ static int ciintf_read_attribute_mem(str
ciintf_slot_shutdown(ca, slot);
printk(KERN_INFO "budget-av: cam ejected 1\n");
}
+
+ mutex_unlock(&budget_av->camlock);
+
return result;
}
@@ -155,6 +161,8 @@ static int ciintf_write_attribute_mem(st
if (slot != 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ mutex_lock(&budget_av->camlock);
+
saa7146_setgpio(budget_av->budget.dev, 1, SAA7146_GPIO_OUTHI);
udelay(1);
@@ -163,6 +171,9 @@ static int ciintf_write_attribute_mem(st
ciintf_slot_shutdown(ca, slot);
printk(KERN_INFO "budget-av: cam ejected 2\n");
}
+
+ mutex_unlock(&budget_av->camlock);
+
return result;
}
@@ -174,6 +185,8 @@ static int ciintf_read_cam_control(struc
if (slot != 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ mutex_lock(&budget_av->camlock);
+
saa7146_setgpio(budget_av->budget.dev, 1, SAA7146_GPIO_OUTLO);
udelay(1);
@@ -181,8 +194,10 @@ static int ciintf_read_cam_control(struc
if (result == -ETIMEDOUT) {
ciintf_slot_shutdown(ca, slot);
printk(KERN_INFO "budget-av: cam ejected 3\n");
- return -ETIMEDOUT;
}
+
+ mutex_unlock(&budget_av->camlock);
+
return result;
}
@@ -194,6 +209,8 @@ static int ciintf_write_cam_control(stru
if (slot != 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ mutex_lock(&budget_av->camlock);
+
saa7146_setgpio(budget_av->budget.dev, 1, SAA7146_GPIO_OUTLO);
udelay(1);
@@ -202,6 +219,9 @@ static int ciintf_write_cam_control(stru
ciintf_slot_shutdown(ca, slot);
printk(KERN_INFO "budget-av: cam ejected 5\n");
}
+
+ mutex_unlock(&budget_av->camlock);
+
return result;
}
@@ -274,6 +294,8 @@ static int ciintf_poll_slot_status(struc
if (slot != 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ mutex_lock(&budget_av->camlock);
+
/* test the card detect line - needs to be done carefully
* since it never goes high for some CAMs on this interface (e.g. topuptv) */
if (budget_av->slot_status == SLOTSTATUS_NONE) {
@@ -304,10 +326,13 @@ static int ciintf_poll_slot_status(struc
if (budget_av->slot_status != SLOTSTATUS_NONE) {
ciintf_slot_shutdown(ca, slot);
printk(KERN_INFO "budget-av: cam ejected 5\n");
+ mutex_unlock(&budget_av->camlock);
return 0;
}
}
}
+
+ mutex_unlock(&budget_av->camlock);
/* read from attribute memory in reset/ready state to know when the CAM is ready */
if (budget_av->slot_status == SLOTSTATUS_RESET) {
@@ -332,6 +357,7 @@ static int ciintf_init(struct budget_av
struct saa7146_dev *saa = budget_av->budget.dev;
int result;
+ mutex_init(&budget_av->camlock);
memset(&budget_av->ca, 0, sizeof(struct dvb_ca_en50221));
saa7146_setgpio(saa, 0, SAA7146_GPIO_OUTLO);
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