[REGRESSION] 3.13-rc2: locks up hard on trying to transfer a file to mmc based internal SD card slot

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Samstag, 30. November 2013, 14:53:51 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Just added linux-mmc. And I might git-bisect that at some time, but I do not
> intend to do it during my precious weekend. The chances of me bisecting it
> increase with workable suggestions on how to cut down the amount of
> iterations needed and avoid testing highly experimental between 3.12 and
> 3.13-rc1 kernels on a production laptop. I may be willing to test a patch
> or two. As I see there seem to have been quite some changes in MMC
> subsystem.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Just does that on a ThinkPad T520 with:
> 
> merkaba:~> lspci -nn | grep MMC
> 0d:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd PCIe SDXC/MMC Host Controller
> [1180:e823] (rev 08)
> 
> Mouse pointer freezes, no Ctrl-Alt-F1.

It just does that with

Linux version 3.13.0-rc6-tp520 (martin at merkaba) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Debian 
4.8.2-10) ) #41 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 30 13:39:07 CET 2013

as well.

But, only when trying to write a file via desktop environment via dolphin from 
KDE in that case. When I am on tty1 it seems to be stable to write to the SD 
card. But with dolphin on writing a large few files vom /usr/bin mouse pointer 
froze again. But according to harddisk led from ThinkPad T520 there has been 
some write activity afterwards. The LED also lits up for MMC card accesses. 
Still after reboot there is none of the copied files visible on the FAT32 
formatted SD card.

Thus adding Intel gfx and dri devel lists to CC.


This crashing only under GUI might still be a coindidence. I only tried once. 
But since the crash usually came almost immediately and it didn´t crash with 
reading or writing files on TTY1 and it somehow continued I/O according to 
harddisk led instead of seeming to be completely stopped… well I can try again 
to make sure. Would be good to make it crash on TTY1 since then I might see 
some kernel output.


Back to 3.12.6 for now. I just tried the same with that kernel and there the 
copying just works nice.

I can also report a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org if needed.


May comments about bisecting still applies. I do not feel comfortable with 
doing it on this production machine with production data on it… especially 
given the major block layer changes. There may be points in history were the 
kernel produces data corruption or so.

Thanks,
Martin



> 
> 
> merkaba:~> fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
> 
> Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 31.4 GB, 31439454208 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3822 cylinders, total 61405184 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
>         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/mmcblk0p1            8192    61405183    30698496    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA
> 
> 
> merkaba:/sys/block/mmcblk0#2> grep . * 2>/dev/null
> alignment_offset:0
> capability:10
> dev:179:0
> discard_alignment:0
> ext_range:8
> force_ro:0
> inflight:       0        0
> range:8
> removable:0
> ro:0
> size:61405184
> stat:     176       33     1672      102        0        0        0        0
> 0      102      102
> uevent:MAJOR=179
> uevent:MINOR=0
> uevent:DEVNAME=mmcblk0
> uevent:DEVTYPE=disk
> 
> 
> I do not want to take the time to diagnose this further, especially as its
> one of those nasty "I just lock up and I don´t tell you what went wrong"
> kind of bugs. Thats just not a nice way to tell that there has been an
> error.
> 
> 
> If there is any five or ten minute information gathering task, I am willing
> to provide more information, but right now there is no chance on Earth that
> I will be bisecting while having a long list of more interesting things to
> do than that.
> 
> 
> Thus for now I just use 3.12 kernel again. Maybe I will try with some rc5 or
> so again.
> 
> Ciao,

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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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