Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754672AbXJBUi1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:38:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753358AbXJBUiR (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:38:17 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:57664 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753248AbXJBUiQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:38:16 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc9 boot failure (megaraid?) From: James Bottomley To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Burton Windle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , FUJITA Tomonori , Sumant Patro , megaraidlinux@lsi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20071002181518.GC10852@stusta.de> References: <20071002181518.GC10852@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:38:13 -0500 Message-Id: <1191357493.3530.129.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2756 Lines: 77 On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 20:15 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Cc's added, the complete bug report is at > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/2/243 > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:48:26PM -0400, Burton Windle wrote: > > 2.6.23-rc9 fails to boot for me; 2.6.22.9 works fine. > > > > System is a Dell Poweredge with PERC 2/DC with RAID1 volume. > >... > > Thanks for your report. > > Diff'ing the dmesg's shows: > > <-- snip --> > > scsi0: scanning scsi channel 4 [P0] for physical devices. > scsi0: scanning scsi channel 5 [P1] for physical devices. > st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 > -sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 17547264 512-byte hardware sectors (8984 MB) > +sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sector size 0 reported, assuming 512. > +sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1 512-byte hardware sectors (0 MB) > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through > -sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 17547264 512-byte hardware sectors (8984 MB) > +sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sector size 0 reported, assuming 512. > +sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1 512-byte hardware sectors (0 MB) > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through > sda: sda1 > + sda: p1 exceeds device capacity > > <-- snip --> > > - case MEGA_BULK_DATA: > - if (scb->cmd->use_sg == 0) > - length = scb->cmd->request_bufflen; > - else { > - struct scatterlist *sgl = > - (struct scatterlist *)scb->cmd->request_buffer; > - length = sgl->length; > - } > - pci_unmap_page(adapter->dev, scb->dma_h_bulkdata, > - length, scb->dma_direction); > - break; > - This is the problem piece I think. We've reintroduced a very old bug: commit 51c928c34fa7cff38df584ad01de988805877dba Author: James Bottomley Date: Sat Oct 1 09:38:05 2005 -0500 [SCSI] Legacy MegaRAID: Fix READ CAPACITY Some Legacy megaraid cards can't actually cope with the scatter/gather version of the READ CAPACITY command (which is what we now send them since altering all SCSI internal I/O to go via the block layer). Fix this (and a few other broken megaraid driver assumptions) by sending the non-sg version of the command if the sg list only has a single element. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley So what we have to do is put back the check for use_sg == 1 and send that as a bulk transfer command. James - 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/