From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Yinghai Lu" Subject: Re: kexec and aacraid broken Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:11:59 -0700 Message-ID: <86802c440705301511vb8b2065xeb59e1b06aff2fea@mail.gmail.com> References: <86802c440705301422h4e1fe90fra5a809cede5903a8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.232]:60122 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758373AbXE3WMB (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 18:12:01 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id n1so1676416nzf for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 15:12:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Salyzyn, Mark" Cc: Andrew Morton , Vivek Goyal , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Michal Piotrowski On 5/30/07, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > Yinghai Lu [mailto:yhlu.kernel@gmail.com] writes: > > aacraid_commit_reset.patch is in the mainline already. > > But aacraid_commit_reset.patch is not in 2.6.22-rc3 (to which you report > the issue). Does the aacraid_commit_reset.patch work to resolve this > issue all by itself in the kexec'd kernel? Or alternatively did you try > aacraid.startup_timeout=540 as one of the kernel parameters passed to > the kexec'd kernel? No, still get adapter kernel panic > > The '[PATCH] aacraid: fix shutdown handler to also disable interrupts' > patch (you refer to this as patch 4) is not to be in the picture because > it will hide the root cause. I believe I have you correct in stating > that this patch (4) resolves the problem... but I expect the problem to > remain with kdump. Oh. without patch(4), latest kernel still can use kexec to 2.6.21.3 will try to load 2.6.22-rc1 etc. YH