Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751595AbXBDBN5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 20:13:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751689AbXBDBN5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 20:13:57 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:54541 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751578AbXBDBN4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 20:13:56 -0500 X-Authenticated: #5039886 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 02:13:51 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-kernel , Larry Walton , s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, pomac@vapor.com, chunkeey@web.de, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5 Message-ID: <20070204011351.GA2069@atjola.homenet> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel , Larry Walton , s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, pomac@vapor.com, chunkeey@web.de, Jeff Garzik References: <45B697D3.4070707@shaw.ca> <20070124003923.GA3093@atjola.homenet> <20070203014215.GA28126@atjola.homenet> <45C4221E.7050201@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <45C4221E.7050201@shaw.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2067 Lines: 40 On 2007.02.02 23:48:14 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > >On 2007.01.24 01:39:23 +0100, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > >>On 2007.01.23 17:18:43 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > >>>Larry Walton wrote: > >>>>The last patch (sata_nv-force-int-dev-in-interrupt.patch) > >>>>seems to have fix the problem. Much appreciated, > >>>>thank you. I'd consider it a must have in 2.6.20. > >>>Can any of the rest of you that have been seeing this problem also > >>>confirm that this fixes it? > >>Seems to work for me, uptime is about an hour now and no exception yet. > >>Had the stress test running for only about 10 minutes, but I usually got > >>an exception within an hour even during plain irssi usage, so I'm quite > >>confident that the patch fixes it. > > > >Or maybe not :( Just got an exception on 2.6.20-rc6. Took 4 days of > >uptime to trigger, so it's just a lot harder to trigger now. > > Same exception details as before? Yes, exactly the same. > There's a patch in -mm (sata_nv-use-adma-for-nodata-commands.patch) > which should hopefully avoid this problem for the cache flush commands, > at least - can you try that one out? You'll have to apply the other > sata_nv patches in -mm first, i.e. this order: > > http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/broken-out/sata_nv-cleanup-adma-error-handling-v2.patch > http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/broken-out/sata_nv-cleanup-adma-error-handling-v2-cleanup.patch > http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/broken-out/sata_nv-use-adma-for-nodata-commands.patch Got 2.6.20-rc7 with them applied now (the rejects seemed trivial enough for me to fix them). Let's see how that works out... Bj?rn - 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/