Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755191AbXFSOIb (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:08:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751592AbXFSOIW (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:08:22 -0400 Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:37645 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751267AbXFSOIV (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:08:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4677E3BC.3040307@ru.mvista.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:10:04 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Linas Vepstas , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup References: <20070618175713.GD5836@austin.ibm.com> <20070618212704.394912b8@the-village.bc.nu> <20070618204601.GF5836@austin.ibm.com> <20070618220441.3a3af8ca@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070618220441.3a3af8ca@the-village.bc.nu> 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: 631 Lines: 18 Hello. Alan Cox wrote: >>I can prepare a patch, but only with a lot of guidance. I can test >>& debug, I'm highly motivated just right now ... > If you've got a nice repeatable problem please try using the libata > driver. That handles the error paths differently and doesn't try a FIFO > drain which might matter in this case I guess. FIFO drain for DMA commands? MBR, Sergei - 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/