Re: 2.6.14-rc5-mm1

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 08:26 -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 01:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc5/2.6.14-rc5-mm1/
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I can't seem to keep my AMD64 machine up with 2.6.14-rc5-mm1.
> > > Keep running into following. qlogic driver problem ?
> > 
> > I don't know why the qlogic driver has suddenly started doing this - were
> > there any earlier messages which might tell us?  Is it possible to increase
> > the debugging level?
> > 
> > I can spot one bug in there, but the lockup is just a symptom.
> > 
> > There are no qlogic changes in 2.6.14-rc5-mm1.
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Badari
> > > 
> > > NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU 0
> > > CPU 0
> > > Modules linked in: qlogicfc qla2300 qla2200 qla2xxx firmware_class
> 
> 
> qlogicfc attaches to both 2100 and 2200 ISPs.  It seems you're then
> trying to load qla2xxx driver along with the 2300 and 2200 firmware
> loader modules.  The pci_request_regions() call during 2200 probing
> fails.

Hmm. This is happening because I have both qlogicfc and qla2200 as
modules ?

> 
> > > <ffffffff8010dd2e>{system_call+12 6}
> > 
> > qla2x00_probe_one() has called qla2x00_free_device() and
> > qla2x00_free_device() has locked up in
> > wait_for_completion(&ha->dpc_exited);
> > 
> > Presumably, ha->dpc_exited is not initialised yet.
> > 
> 
> Causing this cleanup badness.
> 
> > The first `goto probe_failed' in qla2x00_probe_one() will cause
> > qla2x00_free_device() to run wait_for_completion() against an uninitialised
> > completion struct.  Because ha->dpc_pid will be >= 0.
> > 
> > This patch might fix the lockup, but if so, qla2x00_iospace_config()
> > failed.  Please debug that a bit for us?
> 
> Badari, is there some reason you are using qlogicfc?  THe qla2xxx
> driver supports all QLogic ISP parts.

Not intentionally. I have qla2200, qla2300 cards in my machine.
I build all the qlogic drivers as modules.

I hate to admit it - but I do use modules for qlogic disks.
I can't seem to compile the qlogic drivers (2200, 2300) into the
kernel and boot without problems (consistently on all my machines 
- I run into few issues):

(1) Between kernels, sometimes probing order changes and my local
disks get probed last and screws up my boot process - I don't
think this is a qlogic problem.

(2) Sometimes, one of the driver complains something like 
"PCI region already in use" and hangs on boot.

BTW, (2) happens even if its modules and I can't boot my
machine. Sometimes I had to boot with old kernel and hide
the modules - so boot process can't find them to workaround
the problem.

Is there a "dont-load-modules" option or don't load a specific
module option on boot ?

Thanks,
Badari