Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Jan Dittmer wrote: > > >>>Can you post a stack dump for those two threads? Normally they are idle, >>>in an interruptible wait, so they shouldn't be in D state. Since they >>>are, maybe there's some sort of error recovery attempt going on. Like >>>hald doing its periodic checking of hotpluggable storage devices while >>>your monitor is off. >> >>They don't appear in lsusb or /proc/scsi/scsi anymore, so I don't know what >>you mean. >> >>[4327082.342000] usb-storage D 000F4261 0 3308 1 4671 >>2487 (L-TLB) >>[4327082.342000] ded95f0c c9185a70 c04ae888 000f4261 00000010 ded94000 >>00000000 cd393840 >>[4327082.342000] 000f4261 dfabcb98 dfabca70 ce5b2300 000f4261 ded94000 >>09c67100 00000000 >>[4327082.342000] c0410b24 00000286 c0410b2c dfabca70 c03adb5d 00000001 >>dfabca70 c011a2f0 >>[4327082.342000] Call Trace: >>[4327082.342000] [] __down+0xdd/0x140 >>[4327082.342000] [] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 >>[4327082.342000] [] __down_failed+0x7/0xc >>[4327082.342000] [] scsi_host_dev_release+0x0/0x90 >>[4327082.342000] [] .text.lock.kthread+0xb/0x27 >>[4327082.342000] [] scsi_host_dev_release+0x37/0x90 >>[4327082.342000] [] kobject_cleanup+0x4e/0xa0 >>[4327082.342000] [] kobject_release+0x0/0x10 >>[4327082.342000] [] kref_put+0x2f/0x80 >>[4327082.342000] [] kobject_put+0x1e/0x30 >>[4327082.342000] [] kobject_release+0x0/0x10 >>[4327082.342000] [] usb_stor_control_thread+0x68/0x240 [usb_storage] >>[4327082.342000] [] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 >>[4327082.342000] [] usb_stor_control_thread+0x0/0x240 [usb_storage] >>[4327082.342000] [] usb_stor_control_thread+0x0/0x240 [usb_storage] >>[4327082.342000] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18 > > > I recognize the problem. This experimental patch should fix it: It fixes the described problem but introduces some others: [4294822.152000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.1[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [4294822.781000] libata version 1.12 loaded. [4294822.795000] sata_via version 1.1 [4294822.795000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [4294822.796000] PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.0, from 10 to 1 [4294822.798000] sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq line 1 [4294822.800000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000048 [4294822.801000] printing eip: [4294822.803000] e5c4d384 [4294822.805000] *pde = 00000000 [4294822.806000] Oops: 0000 [#1] [4294822.806000] PREEMPT [4294822.806000] Modules linked in: sata_via libata snd_bt87x pl2303 usbserial usblp usbhid snd_via82xx snd_mpu401_uart w83627hf w83781d i2c_viapro tun vfat fat loop via_agp intel_agp agpgart lp parport_pc parport tuner tvaudio msp3400 bttv video_buf firmware_class v4l2_common btcx_risc tveeprom videodev eeprom asb100 hwmon_vid hwmon i2c_dev i2c_isa i2c_i801 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_emu10k1 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_ac97_bus snd_page_alloc snd_util_mem snd_hwdep snd soundcore usb_storage ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore button processor ac e100 rtc [4294822.806000] CPU: 0 [4294822.806000] EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI [4294822.806000] EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.14-rc1-git1-via) [4294822.806000] EIP is at ata_scsi_error+0x14/0x30 [libata] [4294822.806000] eax: dfabb254 ebx: dfabb000 ecx: df8de000 edx: 00000000 [4294822.806000] esi: deb82000 edi: dfabb000 ebp: c02c8310 esp: deb83fa8 [4294822.806000] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 [4294822.806000] Process scsi_eh_5 (pid: 6417, threadinfo=deb82000 task=df5fda70) [4294822.806000] Stack: dfabb254 dfabb000 c02c836d dfabb000 fffffffc df8dfde0 c0134bb6 dfabb000 [4294822.806000] deb83fd0 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff c0134b00 00000000 00000000 00000000 [4294822.806000] c01013ad df8dfde0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [4294822.806000] Call Trace: [4294822.806000] [] scsi_error_handler+0x5d/0xa0 [4294822.806000] [] kthread+0xb6/0xc0 [4294822.806000] [] kthread+0x0/0xc0 [4294822.806000] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18 [4294822.806000] Code: 83 bd 63 da 83 c4 08 31 c0 5b c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 53 83 ec 04 8b 5c 24 0c 8d 83 54 02 00 00 8b 50 04 89 04 24 52 48 8d 43 38 ff 4b 60 89 43 38 89 43 3c 83 c4 04 5b 31 c0 [4294822.806000] <6>ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEC00 ctl 0xE802 bmdma 0xDC00 irq 17 [4294822.845000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000048 [4294822.846000] printing eip: [4294822.848000] e5c4d384 [4294822.850000] *pde = 00000000 [4294822.851000] Oops: 0000 [#2] [4294822.851000] PREEMPT [4294822.851000] Modules linked in: sata_via libata snd_bt87x pl2303 usbserial usblp usbhid snd_via82xx snd_mpu401_uart w83627hf w83781d i2c_viapro tun vfat fat loop via_agp intel_agp agpgart lp parport_pc parport tuner tvaudio msp3400 bttv video_buf firmware_class v4l2_common btcx_risc tveeprom videodev eeprom asb100 hwmon_vid hwmon i2c_dev i2c_isa i2c_i801 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_emu10k1 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_ac97_bus snd_page_alloc snd_util_mem snd_hwdep snd soundcore usb_storage ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore button processor ac e100 rtc [4294822.851000] CPU: 0 [4294822.851000] EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI [4294822.851000] EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.14-rc1-git1-via) [4294822.851000] EIP is at ata_scsi_error+0x14/0x30 [libata] [4294822.851000] eax: df1c6254 ebx: df1c6000 ecx: df8de000 edx: 00000000 [4294822.851000] esi: deb82000 edi: df1c6000 ebp: c02c8310 esp: deb83fa8 [4294822.851000] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 [4294822.851000] Process scsi_eh_6 (pid: 6418, threadinfo=deb82000 task=df5fda70) [4294822.851000] Stack: df1c6254 df1c6000 c02c836d df1c6000 fffffffc df8dfde0 c0134bb6 df1c6000 [4294822.851000] deb83fd0 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff c0134b00 00000000 00000000 00000000 [4294822.851000] c01013ad df8dfde0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [4294822.851000] Call Trace: [4294822.851000] [] scsi_error_handler+0x5d/0xa0 [4294822.851000] [] kthread+0xb6/0xc0 [4294822.851000] [] kthread+0x0/0xc0 [4294822.851000] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18 [4294822.851000] Code: 83 bd 63 da 83 c4 08 31 c0 5b c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 53 83 ec 04 8b 5c 24 0c 8d 83 54 02 00 00 8b 50 04 89 04 24 52 48 8d 43 38 ff 4b 60 89 43 38 89 43 3c 83 c4 04 5b 31 c0 [4294822.851000] <6>ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE002 bmdma 0xDC08 irq 17 [4294823.096000] ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000) [4294823.098000] scsi5 : sata_via [4294823.302000] ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) [4294823.304000] scsi6 : sata_via I attached your message for reference -- Jan