On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:36:40AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: > (Note: Frodo is out of the lm-sensors project for years, no need to Cc > him.) > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:41:03 -0700, Sasikanth babu wrote: > > when I'm trying to delete lm75 device using sysfs delete_device attribute > > (echo 0x4e >/sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-3/delete_device) > > It hangs at lm75_remove function. I started the device using sysfs > > attribute new_device. > > > > > > Kernel verion : 2.6.34.12 > > I can't reproduce this with kernel 3.4.2. > > Did you try reproducing this with a more recent kernel? 2.6.34 is > getting old. > > Is there anything you can think of which makes your system special? I2C > bus multiplexing ? Some unusual kernel option maybe? > > > "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > > i2cinit D ffffffff814a04e0 0 2064 2059 0x00000004 > > ffff880271928a70 0000000000000086 0000000000000096 ffff880273215b48 > > ffff8802ffffffff ffff880477306a70 0000000000010140 ffff880273215fd8 > > 0000000000010140 ffff880271928a70 ffff880273215fd8 ffff880273215fd8 > > Call Trace: > > [<ffffffff8103ecd0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 > > [<ffffffff8148765f>] ? __rt_mutex_slowlock+0x4f/0x110 > > [<ffffffff814879e3>] ? rt_mutex_slowlock+0x93/0x190 > > [<ffffffff813278d9>] ? i2c_smbus_xfer+0x49/0x110 > > [<ffffffff814e1de0>] ? dev_sysfs_ops+0x0/0x10 > > [<ffffffff81327c40>] ? i2c_smbus_write_byte_data+0x30/0x40 > > This looks odd, sysfs_remove_group() doesn't call > i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(), and i2c_smbus_write_byte_data() doesn't > touch dev_sysfs_ops... So this stack trace is approximate. > I thought it was probably the call to lm75_write_value() in lm75_remove() after sysfs_remove_group() returned. Guenter > > [<ffffffff811361f9>] ? sysfs_remove_group+0x59/0x100 > > [<ffffffff8132ec2d>] ? lm75_remove+0x4d/0x80 > > [<ffffffff81326ef9>] ? i2c_device_remove+0xa9/0xc0 > > [<ffffffff8129ffb6>] ? __device_release_driver+0x56/0xc0 > > [<ffffffff812a00f5>] ? device_release_driver+0x25/0x40 > > [<ffffffff8129f481>] ? bus_remove_device+0x91/0xc0 > > [<ffffffff8129d7a8>] ? device_del+0x118/0x190 > > [<ffffffff8129d829>] ? device_unregister+0x9/0x20 > > [<ffffffff813281bc>] ? i2c_sysfs_delete_device+0x17c/0x200 > > [<ffffffff81133046>] ? sysfs_write_file+0x1c6/0x260 > > [<ffffffff810d5323>] ? vfs_write+0x103/0x200 > > [<ffffffff810d550e>] ? sys_write+0x4e/0x90 > > [<ffffffff814884e4>] ? page_fault+0x24/0x30 > > [<ffffffff810024ab>] ? system_call_done+0x0/0x5 > > -- > Jean Delvare > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html