Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756119AbXE3Rgq (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 13:36:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753760AbXE3Rgh (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 13:36:37 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:39001 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753548AbXE3Rgg (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 13:36:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QldlOBzjcc5Ez3PDJtSG5fNWLcEQUujC9LIotLtwKZxMhxtZ9sMVxYLMn0Jenm0q55JMYAZUAnt+U0uYrh3pb6yoOq1vz3FhJ37+IAhyqrMaURAkahM+gdsR6ebvMwG9T7thgGx5u66XlEBs5N2OiuMHAtly9ksctTvU+Isg7N8= Message-ID: <86802c440705301036q45e4bed4ra08a5c4394eafa0e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:36:35 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "Salyzyn, Mark" Subject: Re: [PATCH] aacraid: fix shutdown handler to also disable interrupts. Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, vgoyal@in.ibm.com, "Andrew Morton" , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Michal Piotrowski" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1526 Lines: 37 On 5/30/07, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > Moves quiesce, thread and interrupt shutdown into aacraid drivers' > .shutdown handler. This fix to the aac_shutdown handler will remove the > superfluous reset of the adapter during a (clean) kexec. > > This fix may mitigate the active investigation 'kexec and aacraid > broken' but it is unlikely to affect the root cause (issue likely > present in both kexec and kdump). This patch reduces the chance the > problem will occur with a kexec. The fix for root cause is currently > expected to be the minimum value check to the aacraid.startup_timeout > driver variable after an adapter reset within aacraid_commit_reset.patch > submitted on 05/22/2007 and awaiting testing by Yinghai to confirm. > > This attached patch is against current scsi-misc-2.6 > > ObligatoryDisclaimer: Please accept my condolences regarding Outlook's > handling of patch attachments. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn > > Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn > the kernel with this patch -4 and even without 1. [SCSI] aacraid: superfluous adapter reset for IBM 8 series ServeRAID controllers 2. [SCSI] aacraid: kexec fix (reset interrupt handler) 3. aacraid_commit_reset.patch can load other kernel with or without patch 1,2,3 YH - 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/