Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762146AbXJRHKV (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:10:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752571AbXJRHKI (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:10:08 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([87.55.233.238]:15974 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751944AbXJRHKG (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:10:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:09:30 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mark Lord , Linus Torvalds , David Miller , fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, 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 Message-ID: <20071018070930.GE5063@kernel.dk> 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> <4716F2FC.70400@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4716F2FC.70400@garzik.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1644 Lines: 42 On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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) Do you know if this poop involves the segment padding that sometimes goes on in libata? -- Jens Axboe - 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/