Re: Null Pointer BUG in uhci_hcd

[Michael S. Zick]

On Thu July 9 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> On Thu July 9 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> > 
> 
> Going to have to mark this thread as "suspended" -
> Have a 1Mbyte per minute memory leak that needs finding first.  ;)
>

Hmmm...  acpi=noirq  stops the memory leak.  (???)
That's the easy part - now to figure out why. ;)

Then we can go back to this thread; see if there was a real driver problem
or this thread was just demonstrating an artifact of the above <whatever>.

Mike 

> Mike
> > > In case you missed it - this is the CX700 integrated chipset in a NetBook.
> > > No all USB devices are removable in the sense of being physically impossible.
> > 
> > Do the best you can.
> > 
> > > The documentation for the CX700 has been released from NDA and is available
> > > at the VIA Linux portal - just in case you don't already have your copy.
> > > 
> > > More testing today - including trying some of the many kernel options available
> > > for dealing with funky irq, bios, and acpi implementations.
> > > 
> > > On the subject of irq's:
> > > 
> > > root@cb01:~# biosdecode
> > > # biosdecode 2.9
> > > SMBIOS 2.4 present.
> > >         Structure Table Length: 1556 bytes
> > >         Structure Table Address: 0x000DC010
> > >         Number Of Structures: 47
> > >         Maximum Structure Size: 119 bytes
> > > BIOS32 Service Directory present.
> > >         Revision: 0
> > >         Calling Interface Address: 0x000FDD64
> > > ACPI 1.0 present.
> > >         OEM Identifier: PTLTD
> > >         RSD Table 32-bit Address: 0x1BEE5663
> > > PNP BIOS 1.0 present.
> > >         Event Notification: Not Supported
> > >         Real Mode 16-bit Code Address: E923:768E
> > >         Real Mode 16-bit Data Address: 0040:0000
> > >         16-bit Protected Mode Code Address: 0x00015FCF
> > >         16-bit Protected Mode Data Address: 0x00000400
> > > PCI Interrupt Routing 1.0 present.
> > >         Router ID: 00:11.0
> > >         Exclusive IRQs: None
> > >         Compatible Router: 1106:8324
> > >         Slot Entry 1: ID 00:00, on-board
> > >         Slot Entry 2: ID 00:11, on-board
> > >         Slot Entry 3: ID 00:10, on-board
> > >         Slot Entry 4: ID 00:0f, on-board
> > >         Slot Entry 5: ID 04:09, slot number 9
> > >         Slot Entry 6: ID 00:01, on-board
> > >         Slot Entry 7: ID 01:00, on-board
> > >         Slot Entry 8: ID 00:13, on-board
> > >         Slot Entry 9: ID 02:01, on-board
> > >         Slot Entry 10: ID 00:13, on-board
> > >         Slot Entry 11: ID 03:03, slot number 49
> > >         Slot Entry 12: ID 03:04, slot number 50
> > >         Slot Entry 13: ID 03:05, slot number 51
> > >         Slot Entry 14: ID 03:06, slot number 52
> > >         Slot Entry 15: ID 03:07, slot number 53
> > 
> > Means nothing to me.  I'm no ACPI or chipset expert.
> > 
> > > Whatever a VIA 8324 router happens to be - - -
> > > 
> > > All four of the different brands of "Nano-book reference design"
> > > machines have the same, or very similar, BIOS (all the VIA demo
> > > board BIOS).  That interrupt table is the same in all machines.
> > > Only one of the manufacturer's even bothered to change the serial
> > > number of the machine (1234567890) - they are that "similar".
> > 
> > Alan Stern
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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