Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc3.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions



PCMCIA

Subject    : libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/305
Submitter  : Robert de Rooy <robert.de.rooy@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown



SATA/PATA

Subject    : 22-rc3 broke the CDROM in Dell notebook
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/27/63
Submitter  : Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
             Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Caused-By  : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
             commit d4b2bab4f26345ea1803feb23ea92fbe3f6b77bc
Status     : problem is being debugged



SCSI

Subject    : aacraid: adapter kernel panic'd fffffffd (kexec)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/29/491
Submitter  : Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
             Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged



Sparc64

Subject    : 2.6.22-rc broke X on Ultra5
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/22/78
Submitter  : Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Handled-By : David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Status     : problem is being debugged



Regards,
Michal

--
"Najbardziej brakowało mi twojego milczenia."
-- Andrzej Sapkowski "Coś więcej"

Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc3.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions



PCMCIA

Subject    : libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/305
Submitter  : Robert de Rooy <robert.de.rooy@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown



SATA/PATA

Subject    : 22-rc3 broke the CDROM in Dell notebook
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/27/63
Submitter  : Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
             Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Caused-By  : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
             commit d4b2bab4f26345ea1803feb23ea92fbe3f6b77bc
Status     : problem is being debugged



SCSI

Subject    : aacraid: adapter kernel panic'd fffffffd (kexec)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/29/491
Submitter  : Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
             Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged



Sparc64

Subject    : 2.6.22-rc broke X on Ultra5
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/22/78
Submitter  : Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Handled-By : David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Status     : problem is being debugged



Regards,
Michal

--
"Najbardziej brakowało mi twojego milczenia."
-- Andrzej Sapkowski "Coś więcej"

Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc3.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions



PCMCIA

Subject    : libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/305
Submitter  : Robert de Rooy <robert.de.rooy@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown



SATA/PATA

Subject    : 22-rc3 broke the CDROM in Dell notebook
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/27/63
Submitter  : Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
             Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Caused-By  : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
             commit d4b2bab4f26345ea1803feb23ea92fbe3f6b77bc
Status     : problem is being debugged



SCSI

Subject    : aacraid: adapter kernel panic'd fffffffd (kexec)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/29/491
Submitter  : Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
             Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged



Sparc64

Subject    : 2.6.22-rc broke X on Ultra5
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/22/78
Submitter  : Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Handled-By : David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Status     : problem is being debugged



Regards,
Michal

--
"Najbardziej brakowało mi twojego milczenia."
-- Andrzej Sapkowski "Coś więcej"

Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:20:55 +0200 Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:

> SCSI
> 
> Subject    : aacraid: adapter kernel panic'd fffffffd (kexec)
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/29/491
> Submitter  : Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
> Handled-By : Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
>              Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
> Status     : problem is being debugged

Mark's aacraid-fix-shutdown-handler-to-also-disable-interrupts.patch is
known to fix this, so we can move this to "known regressions with patches"

Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

[Vivek Goyal]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:01:15AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:20:55 +0200 Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > SCSI
> > 
> > Subject    : aacraid: adapter kernel panic'd fffffffd (kexec)
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/29/491
> > Submitter  : Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
> > Handled-By : Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
> >              Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
> > Status     : problem is being debugged
> 
> Mark's aacraid-fix-shutdown-handler-to-also-disable-interrupts.patch is
> known to fix this, so we can move this to "known regressions with patches"

Hi Andrew,

aacraid-fix-shutdown-handler-to-also-disable-interrupts.patch is meant
to ensure that we don't perform an unnecessary reset of the device
during a kexec boot. During kexec, we perform the device_shutdown()
which should bring the device to a known sane state and a reset is
not required while next kernel is coming up.

I think this fix just masks Yinghai's problem and as such does not
fix the root cause of the problem. In his case a software reset
of the card is not successful and this is a problem. This problem
will become visible during kdump.

So I would think that this regression is still there just that got
shifted from kexec to kdump.

But we do need above patch to make sure kexec boot is fast and does
not perform any unrequired device reset.

Thanks
Vivek

RE: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

[Salyzyn, Mark]

Agree, but overstated somewhat.

The card in question that the regression is reported against is not a
released card and as such could have a flawed environment, Hardware,
Firmware or other Incompatibility. The fix for the root cause will
likely not touch the driver or the kernel.

It does raise the specter of a possible follow-on patch to address the
root cause under kdump should we determine that the problem can not be
solved in time of release of the Firmware of the current pre-released
card or if we discover that other released cards have a similar Firmware
or Hardware bug. Speculation such as these do not belong on kernel
regression reports IMHO.

Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vivek Goyal [mailto:vgoyal@in.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 1:54 PM
> To: Andrew Morton
> Cc: Michal Piotrowski; Linus Torvalds; LKML; 
> linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org; Robert de Rooy; Alan Cox; 
> Tejun Heo; linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Jeff Garzik; Gregor 
> Jasny; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; James Bottomley; AACRAID; 
> Yinghai Lu; Vivek Goyal; sparclinux@vger.kernel.org; David 
> Miller; Mikael Pettersson
> Subject: Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:01:15AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:20:55 +0200 Michal Piotrowski 
> <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > SCSI
> > > 
> > > Subject    : aacraid: adapter kernel panic'd fffffffd (kexec)
> > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/29/491
> > > Submitter  : Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
> > > Handled-By : Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
> > >              Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
> > > Status     : problem is being debugged
> > 
> > Mark's 
> aacraid-fix-shutdown-handler-to-also-disable-interrupts.patch is
> > known to fix this, so we can move this to "known 
> regressions with patches"
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> aacraid-fix-shutdown-handler-to-also-disable-interrupts.patch is meant
> to ensure that we don't perform an unnecessary reset of the device
> during a kexec boot. During kexec, we perform the device_shutdown()
> which should bring the device to a known sane state and a reset is
> not required while next kernel is coming up.
> 
> I think this fix just masks Yinghai's problem and as such does not
> fix the root cause of the problem. In his case a software reset
> of the card is not successful and this is a problem. This problem
> will become visible during kdump.
> 
> So I would think that this regression is still there just that got
> shifted from kexec to kdump.
> 
> But we do need above patch to make sure kexec boot is fast and does
> not perform any unrequired device reset.
> 
> Thanks
> Vivek
> 
> 
> 

Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

[Yinghai Lu]

On 6/1/07, Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com> wrote:
> Agree, but overstated somewhat.
>
> The card in question that the regression is reported against is not a
> released card and as such could have a flawed environment, Hardware,
> Firmware or other Incompatibility. The fix for the root cause will
> likely not touch the driver or the kernel

So aacraid.reset_devices=1 works with Vivek's test system?

YH