Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761292AbXHNM0b (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:26:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757437AbXHNM0R (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:26:17 -0400 Received: from emulex.emulex.com ([138.239.112.1]:57827 "EHLO emulex.emulex.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758265AbXHNM0Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:26:16 -0400 Message-ID: <46C19F57.3070801@emulex.com> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:25:59 -0400 From: James Smart Reply-To: James.Smart@Emulex.Com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tore Anderson CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Smart Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc3 References: <46C1717E.3030908@linpro.no> In-Reply-To: <46C1717E.3030908@linpro.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Aug 2007 12:25:59.0470 (UTC) FILETIME=[455ADCE0:01C7DE6E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1452 Lines: 31 fyi.... I've seen these before (and they haven't been specific to the LLDD). The "-EEXIST" error, was an issue of rescan-while-deleting, and where refcounts held the old sdevs in place. They were ramant in 2.6.18/2.6.19. Supposedly, we had patches from Hannes Reinecke. to resolve it, but that was a while ago. Additionally, the traps around the attribute containers are similar. There are still some cases of data structures being freed (and thus erroneously reused later) in the midlayer and transports even though the refcounts on child-structures haven't finished. If you believe these are related to the -rc3 lpfc mods, I recommend retesting on an -rc2 or 2.6.22 to see how similar they are. I'll pull in -rc3 and see if I can't see more on my end.. -- james s Tore Anderson wrote: > I gave it a spin, and got quite a few troubles that appears related to > the lpfc driver. I don't know if these problems happened due to the > recent update as the latest kernel I ran before was 2.6.20 (where I > never saw problems like these). First I see that something failed when > the volumes on the SAN (on a Sun StorageTek 6140 / Engenio 3994) is > registered, causing two errors errors such as: - 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/