Re: Apparent MPT ata pass-through bug SAS1068 and SAS1068E - WAS SMART causes disks to go offline on an LSI SAS1068 controller - Dell SAS 5/iR

[Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com>]

Tim Small wrote:
> 2.6.32-rc4 with mptsas 3.04.13.  I'm running the smartctl -a in a loop 
> at the moment and will leave it running over-night

Hasn't crashed yet (15 hrs).  The following has been logged however,
which looks like ATA pass-through isn't work right to me...

[   22.414415] mptsas: ioc0: attaching sata device: fw_channel 0, fw_id
9, phy 0, sas_addr 0x1221000000000000
[   22.466953] mptsas: ioc0: attaching sata device: fw_channel 0, fw_id
1, phy 1, sas_addr 0x1221000001000000
[   22.519305] mptsas: ioc0: attaching raid volume, channel 1, id 0
[   33.727405] Fusion MPT misc device (ioctl) driver 3.04.13
[   33.738270] mptctl: Registered with Fusion MPT base driver
[   33.749277] mptctl: /dev/mptctl @ (major,minor=10,220)
[ 5300.611795] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31110d00): Originator={PL},
Code={Reset}, SubCode(0x0d00)
[ 5300.629028] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31110d00): Originator={PL},
Code={Reset}, SubCode(0x0d00)
[ 5300.646254] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31110d00): Originator={PL},
Code={Reset}, SubCode(0x0d00)
[ 5300.663478] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31110d00): Originator={PL},
Code={Reset}, SubCode(0x0d00)
[ 5300.680700] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31110d00): Originator={PL},
Code={Reset}, SubCode(0x0d00)
[ 5300.697924] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31110d00): Originator={PL},
Code={Reset}, SubCode(0x0d00)
[ 5312.111795] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31130000): Originator={PL},
Code={IO Not Yet Executed}, SubCode(0x0000)
[ 5312.131469] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff88012c5fc8c0)
[ 5312.156831] mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED (sc=ffff88012c5fc8c0)
[ 5312.169534] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset!
(sc=ffff88012c5fc8c0)
[ 5312.195222] mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: FAILED (sc=ffff88012c5fc8c0)
[ 5312.208276] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting bus reset! (sc=ffff88012c5fc8c0)
[ 5316.612245] mptscsih: ioc0: bus reset: SUCCESS (sc=ffff88012c5fc8c0)
[ 5328.112389] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31140000): Originator={PL},
Code={IO Executed}, SubCode(0x0000)
[ 5328.128508] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting host reset! (sc=ffff88012c5fc8c0)
[12537.867482] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31140000): Originator={PL},
Code={IO Executed}, SubCode(0x0000)
[12537.885769] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting host reset! (sc=ffff88012d55c8c0)
[12537.899173] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating recovery
[12559.704264] mptscsih: ioc0: host reset: SUCCESS (sc=ffff88012d55c8c0)
[44184.424640] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31110d00): Originator={PL},
Code={Reset}, SubCode(0x0d00)
[44184.441866] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31110d00): Originator={PL},
Code={Reset}, SubCode(0x0d00)
[44195.924782] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31130000): Originator={PL},
Code={IO Not Yet Executed}, SubCode(0x0000)
[44195.944449] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff88012c403ac0)
[44195.969799] mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED (sc=ffff88012c403ac0)
[44195.982500] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset!
(sc=ffff88012c403ac0)
[44196.008182] mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: FAILED (sc=ffff88012c403ac0)
[44196.021230] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting bus reset! (sc=ffff88012c403ac0)
[44200.425026] mptscsih: ioc0: bus reset: SUCCESS (sc=ffff88012c403ac0)
[44211.925127] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31140000): Originator={PL},
Code={IO Executed}, SubCode(0x0000)
[44211.943416] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting host reset! (sc=ffff88012c403ac0)
[44211.956814] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating recovery
[44233.760010] mptscsih: ioc0: host reset: SUCCESS (sc=ffff88012c403ac0)
[49878.447977] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31110d00): Originator={PL},
Code={Reset}, SubCode(0x0d00)
[49889.948381] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31130000): Originator={PL},
Code={IO Not Yet Executed}, SubCode(0x0000)
[49889.968080] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff88003799acc0)
[49889.993425] mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED (sc=ffff88003799acc0)
[49890.006129] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset!
(sc=ffff88003799acc0)
[49890.031817] mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: FAILED (sc=ffff88003799acc0)
[49890.044869] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting bus reset! (sc=ffff88003799acc0)
[49894.448617] mptscsih: ioc0: bus reset: SUCCESS (sc=ffff88003799acc0)
[49905.948189] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31140000): Originator={PL},
Code={IO Executed}, SubCode(0x0000)
[49905.966491] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting host reset! (sc=ffff88003799acc0)
[49905.979888] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating recovery



... I will impose a bit of extra IO load on the machine to see if that
provokes more errors.

Thanks,

Tim.

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