Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:45:53 +0100 | From | Chris Pringle <> | Subject | Re: Serial driver 8250 hangs the kernel with the VIA Nehemiah... |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Gwe, 2006-08-11 am 12:08 +0100, ysgrifennodd Chris Pringle: > >>> Unlikely as it would affect both. More likely would be that the ISA bus >>> clock is generated off the PCI bus clock and you have one of the >>> multipliers wrong or too high for the board. >>> >>> >> Thats interesting, but wouldn't this produce strange side affects for >> the 2.4 kernel as well? 2.4 works fine on both VIAs and Celerons. >> > > That I wonder about. The power management stuff and some other things > that matter for timing are different however. > We don't use any kind of power management (not compiled in) as our systems are always on... Is there any timing related options in the kernel config you'd recommend I look at? > >> I'll give the interrupt disabling a go... >> > > Its just a guess but if you have low latency stuff, you have pre-empt > enabled and you actually depend upon the semantics of inb_p/outb_p > giving delays reliably then I'm not convinced are guarantees are strong > enough > > Specifically we don't have any pre-empt protection between the I/O delay > and the I/O so we could violate it as we don't have pre-empt disables in > inb_p/outb_p and if your CPU context switch is quick enough it could > trigger a problem. > > Alan > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Okay, I've tried disabling both preemption and interrupts (separately, and together) and its still hanging...
I've had the Celeron systems being thrashed for well over 4 days now, and they are working fine... Why would the VIA system be any different? They have a slightly different CPU speed (the VIAs are 1000MHz, whereas the Celerons are 850MHz), but I would expect them to be fully compatible otherwise... unless its a microcode bug?
Any more ideas? Do you think writing to port 0x80 could be causing issues?
Thanks, Chris
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