Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759119AbXJRFqF (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:46:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752497AbXJRFpy (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:45:54 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:48237 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751579AbXJRFpx (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:45:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4716F2FC.70400@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:45:32 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Linus Torvalds , David Miller , fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, jens.axboe@oracle.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, tomof@acm.org Subject: Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git References: <20071018080048O.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20071017.181907.63126798.davem@davemloft.net> <4716D6B1.8010309@rtr.ca> <4716EE37.9010701@rtr.ca> <4716F061.50103@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4716F061.50103@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1484 Lines: 43 Mark Lord wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: >> Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Mark Lord wrote: >>>> It would be good to have something soon-ish. >>>> This "dead at boot time" issue is impacting the general ability to test >>>> patches against latest -git in time for the current merge window. >>> >>> In the meantime, does the patch I sent out help people? >> >> Your patch from this posting http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/285 >> does not seem to make much difference here. >> >> It still crashes at exactly the same place. > > > However, Jens's patch from that same thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/269 > > ..allowed me to boot and post this followup message from -git12 > > Jeff: try that one. That's already in my upstream kernel, here. commits ba951841ceb7fa5b06ad48caa5270cc2ae17941e and a3bec5c5aea0da263111c4d8f8eabc1f8560d7bf. sata_mv and sata_nv still reliably poop themselves here, whereas its rock solid with 2.6.23.1. Sounds like different issues from yours, as I see a stream of SATA errors on the bad kernels, errors which are often a symptom of something whacked in the DMA engine (misprogramming causes the silicon to generate bogus FIS's, which the device then chokes on) Jeff - 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/