Re: qla2xxx: frequent total lockups (2.6.8, 2.6.9-rc{1-mm5,2})

[Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Oliver M. Bolzer wrote:

> I'm currently setting up a new Dual Opteron box (Tyan Transport
> GX28) equipped with a QLogic QLA2340 fibre channel HBA.
> 
> As soon as there is I/O load on the HBA, I start seeing
> 

Could you provide some details on the type of I/O load?  

> I've tested and reproduced the error on the following kernels, all
> compiled for x86_64.
> 2.6.8.1
> 2.6.9-rc1-mm5 (with dma_fixups patch posted by Andrew Vasquez on 13.9)
> 2.6.9-rc2 
> 

For another datapoint, did you have any problems with earlier driver
versions (pre b21)?  2.6.8.1 had b14k...

> Without any I/O on the HBA (nothing mounted), I have yet to capture a 
> crash, but the driver still ocasionally reports 
> qla2300 0000:01:03.0: cmd_timeout: LOST command state = 0x6
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. If there are any tests I could 
> run, just let me know.
> 

Hmm, could you enable some additional debug settings in the driver:


  in qla_settings.h:

    modify the following line:

	#define DEBUG_QLA2100           0       /* For Debug of qla2x00 */

    to read as:

	#define DEBUG_QLA2100           1       /* For Debug of qla2x00 */


  and in qla_dbg.h

    modify the following line:

	/* #define QL_DEBUG_LEVEL_2  */ /* Output error msgs to COM1 */

    to read as:

	#define QL_DEBUG_LEVEL_2   /* Output error msgs to COM1 */

Rerun your test, then forward over the log.


Regards,
Andrew Vasquez