From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: disabling sata_nv ADMA for 2.6.24 Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:53:28 +0900 Message-ID: <4782E5A8.9010305@gmail.com> References: <4781F008.9070404@gmail.com> <4782422C.8020202@rtr.ca> <4782B73B.8080309@shaw.ca> <4782BC48.4000309@gmail.com> <4782C008.3030902@shaw.ca> <4782CB62.7040901@gmail.com> <4782CEF9.3040708@gmail.com> <4782DFFE.50301@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ro-out-1112.google.com ([72.14.202.180]:23817 "EHLO ro-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871AbYAHCxo (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:53:44 -0500 Received: by ro-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id p4so2192157roc.5 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:53:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4782DFFE.50301@shaw.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: Mark Lord , Jeff Garzik , IDE/ATA development list , Allen Martin , Peer Chen , Kuan Luo Robert Hancock wrote: >> Okay, just succeeded on the current #upstream-fixes, attaching the log. >> The machine is a brick after the crash. > > I assume the cable got reconnected at 325 seconds? It looks like that > was during error handling for the previous unplug? I don't remember too well (the console was more than two meters away and I was just keeping disconnecting and reconnecting. I noticed the machine was frozen after I came back to console, so... > [ 314.987885] ata3: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x400 > [ 314.993556] ata3: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY, stat=0x400 > [ 315.009915] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x1910000 > action 0xa frozen > [ 315.017708] ata3.00: ADMA status 0x00000402: , hot unplug > [ 315.017714] ata3: SError: { PHYRdyChg Dispar LinkSeq TrStaTrns } > [ 315.029239] ata3.00: cmd 60/01:00:92:d7:12/00:00:05:00:00/40 tag 0 > ncq 512 in > [ 315.029240] res 40/00:04:92:d7:12/00:04:92:d7:12/40 Emask > 0x10 (ATA bus error) > [ 315.029243] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } > [ 315.048236] ata3: hard resetting link > [ 315.774982] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > [ 315.780498] ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs > [ 320.788427] ata3: hard resetting link > [ 325.242220] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > > Not sure if the port would be frozen at this point or not? > > It would be useful to add some printks to narrow down at what point the > lockup happens. If it's a loop, interrupt storm or something then we can > likely fix it, but if the controller's just locking up then we may be > out of luck.. I think it's machine hard lock up. NMI watchdog doesn't get triggered. -- tejun