Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932577AbWARAuu (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:50:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932531AbWARAuu (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:50:50 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:54421 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932520AbWARAut (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:50:49 -0500 Message-ID: <43CD90E3.70906@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:50:43 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051013 Debian/1.7.12-1ubuntu1 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sebastian Kuzminsky Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: sata_mv important note References: <43CD07D5.30302@pobox.com> <200601171734.25598.arekm@pld-linux.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1321 Lines: 32 Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > I'm using: > > 0000:02:01.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09) > > I'm running the stock 2.6.15 kernel & the in-kernel driver. I have four > disks on this controller. The controller and disks seem perfectly stable, > I've been running four parallel "badblocks -n" processes (one on each > disk) for almost 5 days now. Using the disks as PVs in LVM works fine, > and building a RAID-6 out of them also works fine. > > But when I build a RAID-6 out of them, and use the array as a PV > for LVM, the system locks up within seconds (no errors, no sysrq, > no CapsLock-blinky, no network-pingy). This behavior is perfectly > repeatable. > > The problem goes away and everything works if I turn on all the debugging > options in the kernel config (but I dont get any debug output from > the kernel). > > Arkadiusz, if possible, please see if you can replicate my hang. I will try and reproduce and fix this issue when my Marvell RAID system arrives here in a week or two. Cheers - 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/