Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 04:23:43 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
* (unless chaining is used). Should ideally fit inside a single page, to
* avoid a higher order allocation.
*/
-#define SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS 128
+#define SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS 129

this one finally made the trick and it's booting fine now, without any crashes!

Alas, this didn't help me here. I did manage to capture the error messages this time, and in the two machines I'm actively testing on, sata_mv is the driver that's dying in both cases. Machine A additionally has sata_nv, which is working. Machine B additionally has ata_piix, which is working. So in both cases, its sata_mv that is throwing SError complaints:

ata7.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen
ata7.00: edma_err 0x04000080, EDMA self-disable
ata7: SError: { Handshk }
ata7.00: cmd ca/00:08:c7:40:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out
res 50/00:00:ce:40:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x100 (unknown error)
ata7.00: status: { DRDY }
ata7: hard resetting link
ata7: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)

Still digging... this behavior showed up after libata changes went in, FWIW.

Jeff


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