Re: arcmsr - device going offline under 3.10.x (regression?)

Nikola Ciprich
2014-01-06T11:22:01Z

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CC Nick Cheng

one more (a bit) related question, Nick, I can see Your last commit
in git on Jan 6 2011, since then mostly only miscelanous changes to keep
arcmsr in sync with rest of kernel.
But on areca webpages, I can see linux driver 1.30.0X.16-131015,
ie only few months old. There is neither changelog, nor older releases
to be found, only mention of ARC-12x4 cards supported.

Is there really no development in this driver, no bugfixes, anything?

We've got quite a lot of areca boards in production, and it's making
me a bit nervous...

If You could also look at this issue, I'd be grateful and happy to provide
whatever debug info could help to track this down..

BR

nik

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 07:36:00AM +0100, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we're experiencing strange trouble with new box using areca based
> RAID and 3.10.x kernel.
>
> When I load disk subsystem (ie with fio benchmark), system seems to be
> working fine, but after some time (usually next day), device seems to die:
>
>
> <3>[43567.763088] EXT4-fs (dm-4): previous I/O error to superblock detected
> <3>[43567.763091] sd 0:0:1:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> <2>[43567.763093] EXT4-fs error (device dm-4): __ext4_get_inode_loc:4039: inode #135868: block 524619: comm syslog-ng: unable to read itable block
> <2>[43567.763094] EXT4-fs error (device dm-4) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4962: IO failure
> <3>[43567.763095] EXT4-fs (dm-4): previous I/O error to superblock detected
> <3>[43567.763097] sd 0:0:1:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> <4>[43567.763099] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-4): ext4_evict_inode:258: couldn't mark inode dirty (err -5)
> <3>[43567.763143] sd 0:0:1:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> <3>[43567.763150] sd 0:0:1:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
>
>
> Hardware is Supermicro X9DRW/X9DRW with 6 core E5-2620, 64GB RAM, running centos6 + vanilla
> 3.10.x kernel. I tried with two different adapters (1223 and 1882). Since box uses redundant
> powersupplies, I don't think it could be power issue as I found in some areca FAQ. I'm using
> westerdn digital raid edition SATA drives.
>
> we've experienced this problem with 3.10.22 and 3.10.25. I wasn't able to reproduce this
> with 3.0.101 (yet, I'm torturing the box for ~2 days now, so I can't be sure).
>
> Since the problem takes quite long to reproduce (and I'm not sure after how long I can tell
> the system works fine), I'd like to ask about your opinions before trying to bisect this..
>
> any ideas?
>
> thanks a lot in advance!
>
> BR
>
> nik
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