On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Albrecht Dreß<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I run linux 2.6.29.1 from kernel.org on a custom Freescale MPC5200B based > board, which has a CF card attached to the 5200's ATA. The CF seems to run > nicely, but I am somewhat confused by the interrupts reproted by the kernel. > > Immediately after the boot, /proc/interrupts reports (inter alia) > > 135: 8 MPC52xx Peripherals Edge mpc52xx_ata > 194: 0 MPC52xx SDMA Edge ATA task > BAD: 44 > > Then I say 'mount -t vfat -o noatime /dev/sda1 /mnt/cf0', and I get > > 135: 41 MPC52xx Peripherals Edge mpc52xx_ata > 194: 0 MPC52xx SDMA Edge ATA task > BAD: 44 > > Then, I recursively copy a folder to the CF card: > > 135: 125111 MPC52xx Peripherals Edge mpc52xx_ata > 194: 0 MPC52xx SDMA Edge ATA task > BAD: 121863 > > Is it correct that the "ATA task" interrupts are still 0, and that I get such > a high number of BAD ones? Is there a way to detect which source actually > triggered the BAD interrupts?
No, not really, but I'd spend some time looking at the DMA portion of the IRQ handler. Either edge IRQs are not getting acked correctly, or the interrupt controller driver is not reading the pending IRQs correctly. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
