Re: Sym2 scsi hang on boot on sparc64

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 23:17 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 09:47:35AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 17:37 +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 14:25 +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > > > > 3.16 scsi worked fine, 3.17-rc1 misbehaves on 3 of my sparc64 test 
> > > > > machines. E220R and E420R are with onboard 5c3875, V210 is with onboarc 
> > > > > 53c1010 and all behave the same. Any ideas whre to dig deeper? bisection 
> > > > > might be nontrivial, because of sparc64 changes that are OK on 3.17-rc1 
> > > > > again - but is possible if nothing else helps.
> > > > 
> > > > We've got a parisc with an 875 as a root SCSI bus ... I haven't got
> > > > around to building for it yet, but I might find time to try today.
> > > 
> > > Same on parisc:
> > > 
> > > sym0: <1010-66> rev 0x1 at pci 0000:20:01.0 irq 22
> > > sym0: PA-RISC Firmware, ID 7, Fast-80, LVD, parity checking
> > > sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
> > > scsi host0: sym-2.2.3
> > > random: nonblocking pool is initialized
> > > 
> > > and hangs here. So hopefully it is reproducible for you.
> > 
> > And also independent of the sparc changes.  The only other change in the
> > window you quote is 64 bit luns.
> 
> Bisection (on PA-RISC) points to:
> 
> 71e75c97f97a9645d25fbf3d8e4165a558f18747 is the first bad commit
> commit 71e75c97f97a9645d25fbf3d8e4165a558f18747
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Date:   Fri Apr 11 19:07:01 2014 +0200
> 
>     scsi: convert device_busy to atomic_t

That's fixed upstream:

commit 480cadc2b7e0fa2bbab20141efb547dfe0c3707c
Author: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Sun Aug 10 05:54:25 2014 -0700

    scsi: Fix qemu boot hang problem

Could you try with a kernel that has that fix?

Thanks,

James