Hello list,
I am trying out the bluetooth drivers on an embedded MIPS media player. The
Linux kenrel version is locked at 2.6.22-19-sigma. Not much I can do there.
As it happens, I did get it all to work, but the "bluetoothd" process, hangs. It
hangs in a strange way where you can not kill it, and "ps" will also hang when
it inspects /proc/$pid-of-bluetoothd/ etc.
If I ignore that bluetoothd process hangs, the bluetooth device does actually
work. The device is made active before the process hangs.
For example:
sh-3.00# ./dbus-daemon --system
sh-3.00# insmod bluetooth.ko
<6>Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 31
<6>Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
<6>Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
sh-3.00# insmod l2cap.ko
<6>Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
<6>Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
sh-3.00# insmod hci_usb.ko
<6>Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
<6>usbcore: registered new interface driver hci_usb
sh-3.00# ./bluetoothd
(Not hung yet [1])
sh-3.00# ./usr/sbin/hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: USB
BD Address: 00:1B:DC:00:41:91 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
UP RUNNING
RX bytes:95 acl:0 sco:0 events:10 errors:0
TX bytes:45 acl:0 sco:0 commands:10 errors:0
Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0x9b 0xff 0x59 0x83
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy:
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Name: 'PCH-C200-0'
Class: 0x000100
Service Classes: Unspecified
Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized
HCI Ver: 2.1 (0x4) HCI Rev: 0x12e7 LMP Ver: 2.1 (0x4) LMP Subver: 0x12e7
Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)
Now the 'bluetoothd' process is hung - unkillable etc. What is amusing is that
the bluetooth device keeps working:
sh-3.00# ./wminput
Put Wiimote in discoverable mode now (press 1+2)...
Ready.
<6>input: Nintendo Wiimote as /class/input/input1
I have not yet found anyway to kill bluetoothd, apart from reboot. It is
annoying that is hangs like this, even though I can still use the device. If I
strace the process, I get:
writev(2, [{"bluetoothd[1813]: plugins/hciops."..., 71}, {"\n"...,
1}], 2bluetoothd[1813]: plugins/hciops.c:update_ext_inquiry_response())
= 72
[snip]
open("/var/lib/bluetooth/00:1B:DC:00:41:91/config", O_RDWR) = 17
flock(17, LOCK_EX) = 0
fstat(17, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=13, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 13, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_LOCKED, 17, 0
Note the missing return value for old_mmap(). It never comes back. If I take out
update_ext_inquiry_response() entirely, it just dies in another old_mmap(). This
makes me think that the process is locked against itself somewhere earlier, and
dying in mmap() is just a symptom of that.
Are there any known issues with the version of bluetooth module that comes with
2.6.22-19 which could be my issue? Anything know relating to -sigma's kernel
patches even? Although it is peculiar the device keeps working if the problem is
in the kernel module. Debug mode I can turn on?
sh-3.00# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
hci_usb 15872 2
l2cap 26576 6
bluetooth 66176 6 hci_usb,l2cap
If I "hciconfig hci0 down" the device, hci_usb module decreases to 1, but I can
never get it to 0 (I would guess bluetoothd holds the other one).
[1] Actually, I tried to kill bluetoothd before I run hciconfig, and even though
it is not yet stuck in mmap, the process does not die even here.
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