Re: Bug report

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

(cc-ing linux-ide mailing list)


On 08/20/2012 03:31 PM, mr.shroom wrote:

> SATA for kernel(s) 3.5+ has an issue with IRQ Balancing on AMD SB710
> with motherboard ASRock m3a770d3.
> 
> The problem started while using Arch linux, after going back to Debian
> it persisted.  I had tried to find problems with the bug but couldn't
> find any direct help online.  I had a break when finding similar bugs
> on other sites stating that IRQ Balancing might be the fault.  So I
> tried ACPI_IRQ_NOBALANCE in the kernel boot parameters and so far the
> issue has stopped.
> 
> Linux version 3.6.0-rc2 (mboy@debian) (gcc version 4.7.1 (Debian
> 4.7.1-6) ) #1 SMP Sat Aug 18 00:46:06 CDT 2012
> 
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075368] ata4.00: exception Emask
> 0x0 SAct 0x7f SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075373] ata4.00: failed command:
> WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075377] ata4.00: cmd
> 61/08:00:c8:0a:89/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 out
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075377]          res
> 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:4f:c2/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075379] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075381] ata4.00: failed command:
> WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075384] ata4.00: cmd
> 61/08:08:f8:cb:8a/00:00:03:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 4096 out
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075384]          res
> 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075386] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075388] ata4.00: failed command:
> WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075391] ata4.00: cmd
> 61/10:10:80:95:86/00:00:08:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 8192 out
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075391]          res
> 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075393] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075394] ata4.00: failed command:
> READ FPDMA QUEUED
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075397] ata4.00: cmd
> 60/60:18:60:71:62/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq 49152 in
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075397]          res
> 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075399] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075401] ata4.00: failed command:
> READ FPDMA QUEUED
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075404] ata4.00: cmd
> 60/08:20:c8:71:62/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 4 ncq 4096 in
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075404]          res
> 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075406] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075407] ata4.00: failed command:
> READ FPDMA QUEUED
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075410] ata4.00: cmd
> 60/18:28:d8:71:62/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 5 ncq 12288 in
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075410]          res
> 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075412] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075413] ata4.00: failed command:
> READ FPDMA QUEUED
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075417] ata4.00: cmd
> 60/08:30:f8:71:62/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 6 ncq 4096 in
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075417]          res
> 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075418] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
> Aug 20 12:32:08 debian kernel: [42238.075422] ata4: hard resetting link
> 
> After it would reset, it would try SATA I, fail, then mount the drive
> as RO.  I'm running a Phenom II on Debian Wheezy with a bit of Sid,
> don't have the time at the moment to get a better grasp on what you
> need for a proper bug report but I hope this helps.
> --


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~Randy