Re: mei: cancel stall timers in mei_reset

[Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@rosalab.ru>]

On 11/04/2013 07:48 PM, Eugene Shatokhin wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I would appreciate the full log and your .config
>
> I have attached the config and the log.
>
> Meanwhile, I have found one suspicious place in the code that could be related: mei_reset() ignores the return value of mei_hw_start(). According to the logs, there was at least the following interesting call sequence before things went wrong:
>
> mei_reset() => mei_hw_start() => .hw_start() callback, which is mei_me_hw_start() => mei_me_hw_ready_wait().
>
> mei_me_hw_ready_wait() reported "wait hw ready failed" and returned -ETIMEDOUT, that error was propagated to mei_hw_start(). mei_reset(), however, does not check the return value of that function and goes on even if it returns an error: sets dev->dev_state to MEI_DEV_INIT_CLIENTS, calls mei_hbm_start_req(dev), etc.
>
> I am not sure if this is intentional and if this is related to the problem, but still.
>

Oh, looks like it is mei_hw_start() that first ignores the error. Might 
be a problem anyway.

Regards,
Eugene

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