From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: mpt fusion broken sometime since 2.6.24 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:14:03 -0800 Message-ID: <499B6EEB.9040704@kernel.org> References: <20090217230050.GG16841@parisc-linux.org> <86802c440902171511s1abcc0eao560df4b8fcea0e7c@mail.gmail.com> <499B46B2.5040601@kernel.org> <499B6BF7.9090300@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:42238 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751249AbZBRCOl (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:14:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: david@lang.hm Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com david@lang.hm wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> david@lang.hm wrote: >>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>> >>>> david@lang.hm wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Subject: Re: mpt fusion broken sometime since 2.6.24 >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM, wrote: >>>>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:44:55PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I got a picture of the failed boot at >>>>>>>>> http://linux.lang.hm/linux/IMG00052.jpg >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The PCI-MSI line is probably indicative. Can you try booting with: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> mptbase.mpt_msi_enable_sas=0 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> and also send us an lspci -v so we can update the blacklist? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> is that disabling SAS for this system? if so, that's the wrong thing >>>>>>> to do >>>>>>> (the drives are SAS) >>>>>>> >>>>>> it only disable MSI with that mptsas. >>>>>> and mptsas will use ioapic routing. >>>>>> >>>>>> can you post whole bootlog? >>>>> >>>>> unfortunantly it's booting from CD and the only drives in the >>>>> system are >>>>> the ones that are not being accessed. >>>> >>>> i mean with kernel before 2.6.24.. >>> >>> Ok, attached. >>> >> >> so your lsi 1068 is under 8132... need to double check if that chip >> really support MSI. > > anything I can do in the 2.6.24 kernel? or the 2.8.28.6 kernel? > for 2.6.24, it disable msi by default. for 2.6.28 please have mptbase.mpt_msi_enable=0 in your boot command line. YH