Hi, On Fri, Aug 24 2012, Paul Walmsley wrote: > After commit 26b88520b80695a6fa5fd95b5d97c03f4daf87e0 ("mmc: > omap_hsmmc: remove private DMA API implementation"), the Nokia N800 > here stopped booting: > > [ 2.086181] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p1... > [ 2.324066] Unhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x406) at 0x00000000 > [ 2.331451] Internal error: : 406 [#1] ARM > [ 2.335784] Modules linked in: > [ 2.339050] CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.6.0-rc3 #60) > [ 2.344146] PC is at default_idle+0x28/0x30 > [ 2.348602] LR is at trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x15c/0x1b0 > > ... > > This turned out to be due to memory corruption caused by long-broken > PIO code in drivers/mmc/host/omap.c. (Previously, this driver had > been using DMA; but the above commit caused the MMC driver to fall > back to PIO mode with an unmodified Kconfig.) > > The PIO code, added with the rest of the driver in commit > 730c9b7e6630f786fcec026fb11d2e6f2c90fdcb ("[MMC] Add OMAP MMC host > driver"), confused bytes with 16-bit words. This bug caused memory > located after the PIO transfer buffer to be corrupted with transfers > larger than 32 bytes. The driver also did not increment the buffer > pointer after the transfer occurred. This bug resulted in data > corruption during any transfer larger than 64 bytes. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx> Yuck. Thanks for tracking that down, Paul -- pushed to mmc-next for 3.6. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx> <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html