From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.xx: sata_mv: another critical fix
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:51:32 -0500
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Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

Sander wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote (ao):
>> This patch addresses a number of weird behaviours observed
>> for the sata_mv driver, by fixing an "off by one" bug in processing
>> of the EDMA response queue.
>>
>> Basically, sata_mv was looking in the wrong place for
>> command results, and this produced a lot of unpredictable behaviour.
> 
> 2.6.16 with this patch and your former patch applied, crashes during
> stressing a raid5 connected to a MV88SX6081.
> 
> 2.6.16-rc6 crashes too.
> 
> 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 is rock solid wrt sata_mv.
> 
> I get no output of the crash on netconsole. Would it help if I get the
> output of the crash (if any)? In that case I'll connect a screen and see
> what it produces.

Yes, most helpful, please.
Even a digital camera snapshot of the oops would be handy to see.

Thanks!