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From: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com,
	Eric.Moore@lsi.com, Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Subject: Re: BUG 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 -- Boot still hangs w/ async scsi scan
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:14:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196964862.5293.34.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071205132043.a80853d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 13:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:36:39 -0500
> Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> wrote:
> 
> > As reported here:
> > 
> > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=119645761124683&w=4
> > 
> > against 24-rc3-mm2, I'm still seeing the hang on my HP ia64 NUMA
> > platform under 24-rc4-mm1 with async scsi scan enabled.  I'm still
> > seeing the message  "mptspi: ioc#: mpt_config failed" when it hangs. 
> > 
> > I can boot by disabling async scan.  However, I've also noticed some
> > disks attached via one of the "mpt" adapters ["scsi8" in console long in
> > message linked above] going "off-line" during stress tests.  This was
> > under 24-rc3-mm2.  Haven't got that far yet with 24-rc4-mm1.
> > 
> 
> Is ther any way of tricking you into
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt?
> 
> Obvious culprits to start with would be git-scsi-misc and maybe
> scsi-early-detection-of-medium-not-present-updated.patch.  But there are
> only 20-odd scsi patches in there.

The reported hang occurs after pushing the git-scsi-misc patch.  I'm
looking into it now, but it's rather large and I'm a neophyte in this
area.  If James can point me at a broken-out quilt series for this
patch, I'd be willing to try to bisect that--assuming that it IS
bisectable.

Lee


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-06 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-05 16:36 BUG 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 -- Boot still hangs w/ async scsi scan Lee Schermerhorn
2007-12-05 21:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-05 21:44   ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-12-06 18:14   ` Lee Schermerhorn [this message]
2007-12-06 18:35     ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 19:01       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-12-11 18:23         ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-12-07 19:38       ` Lee Schermerhorn

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