On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:36:34PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:05:56PM +0100, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > > 5: 17183 XT-PIC-XT-PIC ata_piix, ata_piix, ehci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb5, uhci_hcd:usb6, uhci_hcd:usb7, uhci_hcd:usb8 > > So, usb7 and ata_piix share the same IRQ line. > > > [ 1.517781] usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303 > > [ 1.517837] usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 > > [ 1.517883] usb 7-1: Product: USB-Serial Controller > > [ 1.517928] usb 7-1: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc. > ... > > [ 4.327431] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial > > [ 4.327585] USB Serial support registered for generic > > [ 4.327747] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic > > [ 4.327774] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core > ... > > [ 4.419657] USB Serial support registered for pl2303 > ... > > [ 4.431805] usb 7-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 > > [ 4.431846] usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303 > > [ 4.431875] pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver > > I believe this is the GPS thingie? > > ... > > [ 175.706014] ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50) > > [ 175.706040] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen > > [ 175.706050] ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA > > [ 175.706062] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:28:41:01/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 in > > [ 175.706064] res 40/00:00:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > > [ 175.706079] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } > > There was no screaming IRQ but it definitely looks like IRQ delivery > is gone at this point. > > > [ 175.706091] ata1: hard resetting link > > [ 176.162049] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > > [ 181.165024] ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) > > [ 181.165034] ata1.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4) > > [ 181.165043] ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) > > Hardreset and IDENTIFY are executed by polling on ata_piix and > READ_NATIVE_MAX is the first command executed using IRQ and that's the > first thing in the recovery sequence which fails. > > > [ 181.165054] ata1: hard resetting link > > [ 181.621053] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > > [ 191.624025] ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) > > [ 191.624036] ata1.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4) > > [ 191.624045] ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) > > [ 191.624053] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps > > [ 191.624065] ata1: hard resetting link > > [ 192.080046] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) > > [ 202.083023] ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) > > [ 202.083033] ata1.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4) > > [ 202.083042] ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) > > [ 202.083049] ata1.00: disabled > > [ 202.083066] ata1: hard resetting link > > And it never comes back. Specifying kernel parameter 'irqpoll' might > help but it looks like somehow the GPS thingie kills the IRQ line > completely. > > cc'ing Greg and linux-usb. Hey, USB folks, it seems accessing a USB > GPS device kills IRQ delivery to ata_piix sharing the same IRQ line as > the USB host. Any ideas on what's going on? The original messages > can be read from... > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg40425.html > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg40428.html That really sounds like an interrupt issue that is higher up than the USB host driver, or the ata drivers. ACPI perhaps? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html