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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: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:23:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1197397413.5296.46.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196967663.5293.36.camel@localhost>

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 14:01 -0500, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 10:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:14:22 -0500 Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 

After trying a few "suspect" hunks of the git-scsi-misc.patch, I have
verified that the commit 8655a546c83fc43f0a73416bbd126d02de7ad6c0--as
discussed in  http://marc.info/?t=119689824100001&r=1&w=4 for a
different symptom--seems to be the culprit.  Reverting this patch allows
me to boot with async scsi scan enabled.  I'm starting a stress test to
verify that this fixes the "disk going off-line" issue that I saw
earlier.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-11 18:23 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
2007-12-06 18:35     ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 19:01       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-12-11 18:23         ` Lee Schermerhorn [this message]
2007-12-07 19:38       ` Lee Schermerhorn

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