2.6.3-mm4 / 2.5 Gb memory / sym53c8xx_2 won't boot

2.6.3-mm4 / 2.5 Gb memory / sym53c8xx_2 won't boot

[Jurriaan]

After upgrading my memory from 1 Gb to 2.5 Gb my 2.6.3-mm4 kernel
wouldn't boot anymore.

It hang when detecting the scsi-chip.
I had in my .config:

CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1

the default value.

The scsi bus kept resetting before detecting any devices. Interestingly,
2.6.3-mm1 did boot with that .config setting. Once I recompiled
2.6.3-mm4 with 

CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=0

it booted (and worked) fine.

So, something regressed in 2.6.3-mm4 versus 2.6.3-mm1, so the default
setting didn't work correctly anymore.

If there is anything I can test, please let me know.

Kind regards,
Jurriaan

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c860 (rev 13)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT374 (rev 07)
00:0e.1 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT374 (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 82)

00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c860 (rev 13)
	Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 1000
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 16000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
	Region 0: I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
	Region 1: Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Linux version 2.6.3-mm4 (jurriaan@middle) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian)) #4 Tue Mar 2 19:32:33 CET 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000009fff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000009fff0000 - 000000009fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000009fff3000 - 00000000a0000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
1663MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f5aa0
<snip>
sym0: <860> rev 0x13 at pci 0000:00:0a.0 irq 18
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
<here the kernel hang previously, ABORT timed out and it kept resetting>
scsi0 : sym-2.1.18f
  Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: DVD-ROM SD-M1401  Rev: 1007
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: PLEXTOR   Model: CD-ROM PX-32TS    Rev: 1.02
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
st: Version 20040213, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
sym0:1: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (50.0 ns, offset 8)
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sym0:2: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (50.0 ns, offset 8)
sr1: scsi-1 drive
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0,  type 5
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0,  type 5
matroxfb_crtc2: secondary head of fb0 was registered as fb1

.config
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_BROKEN=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_X86_PC=y
CONFIG_MK7=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW=y
CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
CONFIG_ACPI_RELAXED_AML=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
CONFIG_SCSI_REPORT_LUNS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=y
CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y
CONFIG_MD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID5=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IPV6_SCTP__=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y
CONFIG_NET_TULIP=y
CONFIG_TULIP=y
CONFIG_TULIP_MWI=y
CONFIG_TULIP_MMIO=y
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
CONFIG_E100=y
CONFIG_8139CP=y
CONFIG_8139TOO=y
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=y
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO=y
# ISDN subsystem
CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y
CONFIG_DRM=y
CONFIG_DRM_MGA=y
CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER=y
CONFIG_I2C=m
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=m
CONFIG_I2C_ISA=m
CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=m
CONFIG_I2C_SENSOR=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_EEPROM=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_VIA686A=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_W83781D=m
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G450=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22=y
CONFIG_LOGO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1=y
CONFIG_SND_CMIPCI=y
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y
CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=y
# Open Sound System
CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_UDF_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y
CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE=y
CONFIG_CRC32=y
CONFIG_X86_BIOS_REBOOT=y
CONFIG_PC=y

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Re: 2.6.3-mm4 / 2.5 Gb memory / sym53c8xx_2 won't boot

[Andrew Morton]

Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> After upgrading my memory from 1 Gb to 2.5 Gb my 2.6.3-mm4 kernel
> wouldn't boot anymore.
> 
> It hang when detecting the scsi-chip.
> I had in my .config:
> 
> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1
> 
> the default value.
> 
> The scsi bus kept resetting before detecting any devices. Interestingly,
> 2.6.3-mm1 did boot with that .config setting. Once I recompiled
> 2.6.3-mm4 with 
> 
> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=0
> 
> it booted (and worked) fine.
> 
> So, something regressed in 2.6.3-mm4 versus 2.6.3-mm1, so the default
> setting didn't work correctly anymore.

I don't know what caused this - there are a few patches in there which
touch the DMA and BIO highmem areas.  Plus always the latest scsi
development tree.

> If there is anything I can test, please let me know.

Could you test Linus's current tree?  The first link at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/.

If this bug hasn't hit Linus's tree yet, it will soon do so...

Re: 2.6.3-mm4 / 2.5 Gb memory / sym53c8xx_2 won't boot

[Jurriaan]

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:47:57PM -0800
> Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> > After upgrading my memory from 1 Gb to 2.5 Gb my 2.6.3-mm4 kernel
> > wouldn't boot anymore.
> > 
> > It hang when detecting the scsi-chip.
> > I had in my .config:
> > 
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1
> > 
> > the default value.
> > 
> > The scsi bus kept resetting before detecting any devices. Interestingly,
> > 2.6.3-mm1 did boot with that .config setting. Once I recompiled
> > 2.6.3-mm4 with 
> > 
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=0
> > 
> > it booted (and worked) fine.
> > 
> > So, something regressed in 2.6.3-mm4 versus 2.6.3-mm1, so the default
> > setting didn't work correctly anymore.
> 
> I don't know what caused this - there are a few patches in there which
> touch the DMA and BIO highmem areas.  Plus always the latest scsi
> development tree.
> 
> > If there is anything I can test, please let me know.
> 
> Could you test Linus's current tree?  The first link at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/.
> 
> If this bug hasn't hit Linus's tree yet, it will soon do so...
> 
It probably will, since it's not in Linus's tree as of

cset-20040303_0509.txt

ie 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 + cset-20040303_0509 does boot with
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1, and 2.6.3-mm4 doesn't.

Kind regards,
Jurriaan
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Re: 2.6.3-mm4 / 2.5 Gb memory / sym53c8xx_2 won't boot

[Andrew Morton]

Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> > Could you test Linus's current tree?  The first link at
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/.
> > 
> > If this bug hasn't hit Linus's tree yet, it will soon do so...
> > 
> It probably will, since it's not in Linus's tree as of
> 
> cset-20040303_0509.txt
> 
> ie 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 + cset-20040303_0509 does boot with

     You meant 2.6.4-rc1, I assume?

> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1, and 2.6.3-mm4 doesn't.

I continue to be stumped.  Could you please test a Linus tree, plus

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/broken-out/bk-scsi.patch

and

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/broken-out/dma_sync_for_device-cpu.patch

?

Re: 2.6.3-mm4 / 2.5 Gb memory / sym53c8xx_2 won't boot

[Jurriaan]

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:38:30PM -0800
> Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > Could you test Linus's current tree?  The first link at
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/.
> > > 
> > > If this bug hasn't hit Linus's tree yet, it will soon do so...
> > > 
> > It probably will, since it's not in Linus's tree as of
> > 
> > cset-20040303_0509.txt
> > 
> > ie 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 + cset-20040303_0509 does boot with
> 
>      You meant 2.6.4-rc1, I assume?
> 
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1, and 2.6.3-mm4 doesn't.
> 
> I continue to be stumped.  Could you please test a Linus tree, plus
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/broken-out/bk-scsi.patch
> 
> and
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/broken-out/dma_sync_for_device-cpu.patch
> 
I'm now stumped also. I tested

2.6.4-rc2 CONFIG.*DMA.*MODE=1: ok
2.6.4-rc2+bk-scsi CONFIG.*DMA.*MODE=1: ok
2.6.4-rc2+bk-scsi+dma_sync CONFIG.*DMA.*MODE=1: ok

then I recompiled a fresh 2.6.3-mm4 kernel from source with
CONFIG.*DMA.*MODE=1, and it booted also.

So it appears to (have) be(en) a Heisenbug. It was there, when I
recompiled, it was gone.

Oh well,
Jurriaan
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