Re: 2.6.3-mm3 hangs on boot x440 (scsi?)

john stultz
2004-02-25T01:22:42Z

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 17:06, Andrew Morton wrote:
> john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Booting 2.6.3-mm3 on an x440 hangs the box during the SCSI probe after
> > the following:
> >
> > scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
> > <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
> > aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> >
> >
> > I went back to 2.6.3-mm1 (as it was a smaller diff) and the problem was
> > there as well.
>
> Could you try reverting aic7xxx-deadlock-fix.patch? Also, add
> initcall_debug to the boot command just so we know we aren't blaming the
> wrong thing.

I was suspecting that patch, unfortunately reverting it doesn't seem to
help.

Here's the initcall_debug output:

ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
calling initcall 0xc04d6821
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs

> Apart from that, gosh. Maybe you could add just linus.patch and
> bk-scsi.patch, see if that hangs too? Or just test the latest linus tree -
> the scsi changes were merged this morning. Thanks.

The bk.current that I tested and worked was from about two hours ago.
But I'll spin it again as 4 new changesets have shown up.

thanks
-john