From: "Oliver M. Bolzer" <oliver@fakeroot.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qla2xxx: frequent total lockups (2.6.8, 2.6.9-rc{1-mm5,2})
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:26:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040924142631.GA15004@magi.fakeroot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915231657.GA2005@magi.fakeroot.net>
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:16:59AM +0200, "Oliver M. Bolzer" <oliver@fakeroot.net> wrote...
>As soon as there is I/O load on the HBA, I start seeing
>
>qla2300 0000:01:03.0: qla2xxx_eh_abort: cmd already done sp=0000000000000000
>
>messages every few seconds, eventually leading to complete system lockups after
>several minutes up to several hours, due to kernel NULL pointer dereferences
>in qla2x00_cmd_timeout().
> 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
2.6.9-rc2-mm2 seems to have fixed the problem.
It is rather puzzling since the difference in the qla2xxx driver between
2.6.9-rc1-mm5+qlogic-oops-fix and 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 is rather minimal. Maybe
the problem was caused by some other part of the kernel that has now
been fixed.
--
Oliver M. Bolzer
oliver@gol.com
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-15 23:16 qla2xxx: frequent total lockups (2.6.8, 2.6.9-rc{1-mm5,2}) Oliver M. Bolzer
2004-09-16 16:30 ` Andrew Vasquez
2004-09-18 8:20 ` Oliver M. Bolzer
2004-09-24 14:26 ` Oliver M. Bolzer [this message]
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