From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>,
Charles-Edouard Ruault <ce@ruault.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel 2.6.15.4: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:38:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140053907.14831.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140027592.2733.38.camel@mindpipe>
On Mer, 2006-02-15 at 13:19 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> AFAICT in PIO mode if a huge IO request is submitted and/or the device
> is slow to respond there's nothing to prevent us spending a long time in
> the IDE driver.
IDE is basically bits of ISA bus decode stuffed down a cable and then
sped up/fancified later. In PIO0 each cycle is pretty slow and we may
issue quite a few in one transfer. If IORDY is enabled as is normally
the case the drive also has the power to tell us to shut up and can do
so for as long as it likes.
> IIRC this can't be made preemptible due to data corruption issues on
> some hardware. Maybe we should touch the watchdog in there.
Some chips disable IRQs here and need to so that the stream of data
doesn't stall and stuff fall apart. Touching the watchdog would be
sensible.
Possibly the same is needed in the new libata pata bits too
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-16 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-12 18:50 Charles-Edouard Ruault
2006-02-14 11:41 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-02-14 16:32 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-15 15:07 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-02-15 18:19 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-16 1:38 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-02-17 22:56 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-16 2:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-16 9:44 ` Charles-Edouard Ruault
2006-02-16 10:36 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-02-16 10:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-16 11:18 ` Charles-Edouard Ruault
2006-02-16 12:57 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-16 13:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-16 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-17 11:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-17 13:08 ` [patch] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanups Ingo Molnar
2006-02-17 14:46 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-17 19:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-17 20:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-17 22:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-03-13 14:48 ` Charles-Edouard Ruault
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