* [PATCH] 2.[46] Fix double reset in aic7xxx driver
@ 2004-07-12 19:20 Joe Korty
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From: Joe Korty @ 2004-07-12 19:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, marcelo.tosatti; +Cc: linux-scsi, linux-kernel
Fix occasional PCI bus parity errors on the Dell PowerEdge 4600 during
boot.
Symptoms: The LCD display would turn orange and display "PCI SYSTEM
E13F5", and the following message would appear in /var/log/dmesg:
"Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue".
By inserting a PCI card with a PDC20268 IDE controller and attaching to
that a Sony DRU-510A DVD RW burner with an unloaded tray, the failure
can be made to happen on every boot.
Cause: The aic7xxx driver was resetting the onboard AIC7891 SCSI controller
while waiting for a previous reset to complete. This second reset confuses
the controller causing it to put bad data onto the PCI bus.
This is a backport of a RedHat 2.4.21-15.ELsmp fix. A letter discussing
this problem, or one very close to it, may be found at:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-May/025010.html
Against 2.6.7 and 2.4.26.
Regards,
Joe
diff -ura base/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_pci.c new/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_pci.c
--- base/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_pci.c 2004-06-16 01:19:22.000000000 -0400
+++ new/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_pci.c 2004-07-12 12:50:11.000000000 -0400
@@ -452,8 +452,10 @@
* or read prefetching could be initiated by the
* CPU or host bridge. Our device does not support
* either, so look for data corruption and/or flaged
- * PCI errors.
+ * PCI errors. First pause without causing another
+ * chip reset.
*/
+ hcntrl &= ~CHIPRST;
ahd_outb(ahd, HCNTRL, hcntrl|PAUSE);
while (ahd_is_paused(ahd) == 0)
;
diff -ura base/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_pci.c new/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_pci.c
--- base/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_pci.c 2004-06-16 01:18:57.000000000 -0400
+++ new/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_pci.c 2004-07-12 12:50:11.000000000 -0400
@@ -1284,8 +1284,10 @@
* or read prefetching could be initiated by the
* CPU or host bridge. Our device does not support
* either, so look for data corruption and/or flagged
- * PCI errors.
+ * PCI errors. First pause without causing another
+ * chip reset.
*/
+ hcntrl &= ~CHIPRST;
ahc_outb(ahc, HCNTRL, hcntrl|PAUSE);
while (ahc_is_paused(ahc) == 0)
;
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