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From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:39:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071130063929.GD2754@fattire.cabal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071129003533.54b4b20e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:35:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ten million is close enough to infinity for me to assume that we broke the
> driver and that's never going to terminate.
> 

how about this? doesn't break things on my pa8800:

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
index 463f119..ef01cb1 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
@@ -1037,10 +1037,13 @@ restart_test:
 	/*
 	 *  Wait 'til done (with timeout)
 	 */
-	for (i=0; i<SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT; i++)
+	do {	
 		if (INB(np, nc_istat) & (INTF|SIP|DIP))
 			break;
-	if (i>=SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
+		msleep(10);
+	} while (i++ < SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT);
+
+	if (i >= SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
 		printf ("CACHE TEST FAILED: timeout.\n");
 		return (0x20);
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
index ad07880..85c483b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
 /*
  *  Misc.
  */
-#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (10000000)
+#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (1000)
 #define BUS_8_BIT	0
 #define BUS_16_BIT	1
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-30  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28  6:29 [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected Kamalesh Babulal
2007-11-28  6:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-28  7:17   ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-11-28  7:25     ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-29  6:31       ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-11-29  8:35         ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-29  9:13           ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-11-30  6:39           ` Kyle McMartin [this message]
2007-11-30  7:00             ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-30  7:02               ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-30  7:28                 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-12-03 21:11                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-04 12:20                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-04 14:57                     ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-12-04 20:55                       ` Ingo Molnar

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