From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: BUG 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 -- Boot still hangs w/ async scsi scan Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:20:43 -0800 Message-ID: <20071205132043.a80853d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1196872599.5346.8.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:52007 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751880AbXLEVVW (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:21:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1196872599.5346.8.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, Eric.Moore@lsi.com On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:36:39 -0500 Lee Schermerhorn 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.