Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763194AbXK2RK5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:10:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762735AbXK2RKr (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:10:47 -0500 Received: from mo11.iij4u.or.jp ([210.138.174.79]:37849 "EHLO mo11.iij4u.or.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762734AbXK2RKq (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:10:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:09:52 +0900 To: anders.henke@1und1.de Cc: tomof@acm.org, jack@ucw.cz, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory) (fwd) From: FUJITA Tomonori In-Reply-To: <20071129164557.GD30957@1und1.de> References: <20071129130319.GA2642@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20071129235813Y.tomof@acm.org> <20071129164557.GD30957@1und1.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20071130021226T.tomof@acm.org> X-Dispatcher: imput version 20040704(IM147) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3553 Lines: 84 On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:45:57 +0100 Anders Henke wrote: > On Nov 29 2007, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:03:19 +0100 > > Jan Kara wrote: > > > > > Adding relevant people and lists to CC... > > > > > > Honza > > > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Anders Henke ----- > > > > > > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:31:50 +0100 > > > From: Anders Henke > > > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > Subject: Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory) > > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) > > > > > > On November 28 2007, Anders Henke wrote: > > > > As "everything is reported as being zero" is quite odd an Jan took a > > > > guess that it might be block-layer or driver-related, I've assumed > > > > that the driver is responsible for this; just out of the curiousity, > > > > I've manually replaced the dpt_i2o driver by the 2.6.19 one by copying > > > > driver/scsi/dpt_i2o.c driver/scsi/dpti.h and driver/scsi/dpt/ into a > > > > vanilla 2.6.23.1. kernel; using this kernel fixed the issue for me. > > > > > > > > I haven't yet fine-tested from which kernel release on the dpt_i2o driver > > > > behaves like this and spews out zeroed blocks when trying to mount > > > > the rootfs. Maybe this is just some timing issue. > > > > > > I've started the fine-tests and can say so far that dpt_i2o from > > > 2.6.22 is still fine. Test is simple: > > > > > > anders@ista:/usr/src/linux-2.6.22/drivers/scsi/dpt$ cp -r dpt/ dpt_i2o.c dpti.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/scsi/ > > > > > > ... recompile the kernel, reboot: works. > > > > > > 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 differ in terms of the dpt_i2o driver by two different > > > patch sets: > > > -one 2 Kb small set of patches from 2.6.22 to 2.6.22-rc1 > > > -one 7 Kb set of patches from 2.6.23-rc2 to 2.6.23-rc3 > > > -one 162 Kb set of patches from 2.6.23-rc9 to 2.6.23-rc10. > > > > > > When applying the 2.6.23-rc1-based driver to "my" 2.6.31.1 kernel, > > > the "zero blocks"-symptom show up, so it's the "lucky" situation > > > that the smallest patch actually seams to be the broken one. > > > > > > According to the 2.6.23-rc1 short-form changelog, there is > > > one major edit on the dpt_i2o driver: > > > > > > FUJITA Tomonori > > > > > > [SCSI] dpt_i2o: convert to use the data buffer accessors > > > > > > Stephen Rothwell > > > dpt_i2o depends on virt_to_bus > > > > > > Fujita, would you please take a look at this? > > > > Sorry about the bug. Can you try this? > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c > > index 8258506..1255b26 100644 > > --- a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c > > +++ b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c > > @@ -3295,7 +3295,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template adpt_template = { > > .this_id = 7, > > .cmd_per_lun = 1, > > .use_clustering = ENABLE_CLUSTERING, > > - .use_sg_chaining = ENABLE_SG_CHAINING, > > + .use_sg_chaining = DISABLE_SG_CHAINING, > > }; > > > > static s32 adpt_scsi_register(adpt_hba* pHba) > > The structure to patch does look different and doesn't include an > tag "use_sg_chaining": Sorry, I misread your bug report. If you use 2.6.23, the sg chaining is unrelated. What architecture do you use? - 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/