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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org" <bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5378] New: aic7xxx deadlock/freeze on Adaptec AIC-7899P
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:41:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051010184144.4dfe2241.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510061626.j96GQxFD025499@fire-1.osdl.org>

bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org wrote:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5378
> 
>            Summary: aic7xxx deadlock/freeze on Adaptec AIC-7899P
>     Kernel Version: 2.6.13.3
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: high
>              Owner: andmike@us.ibm.com
>          Submitter: szpajder@staszic.waw.pl
> 
> 
> The following messages appeared in dmesg:
> 
> scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
> CDB: 0x28 0x0 0x0 0xab 0x8b 0x99 0x0 0x0 0x8 0x0
> scsi0: At time of recovery, card was not paused
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dump Card State Begins <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR 0x9
> Card was paused
> [...] (entire dump attached)
> 
> At the time of these errors, load average exceeded 30. After issuing SCSI RESET,
> the system went back to normal. The problem reappeared several hours later -
> load average reached 140 and all the tasks hung waiting for I/O. I was waiting
> for SCSI RESET, which did not occur this time - after about 3 minutes I had to
> reboot with sysrq.
> 
> The problem ocurred about a day after upgrading from 2.6.12.4 (which was running
> fine for over 50 days) to 2.6.13.3. Hardware: Intel SDS2 mainboard with Adaptec
> AIC-7899P SCSI onboard, 4 x Seagate ST336753LW, software RAID-5, configs, lspci,
> etc - attached. The main difference between startup dmesgs is that all hard
> drives were set up as asynchronous during bootup - this didn't occur under
> 2.6.12.4. So I went back to 2.6.12.4 for now, it seems to be ok.

ISTR that there have been several reports of this regression.

What could have caused this?

       reply	other threads:[~2005-10-11  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200510061626.j96GQxFD025499@fire-1.osdl.org>
2005-10-11  1:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-10-11  3:00   ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 5378] New: aic7xxx deadlock/freeze on Adaptec AIC-7899P James Bottomley

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