Re: SCSI ABORT with 2.6.17-rc4-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"Christian Kujau" <evil@g-house.de> wrote:
>
> [sorry for repost, local MTA problems here...]
> 
> Hi list, Hi Andrew,
> 
> I cannot boot 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 because my rootdisk is a scsi disk and upon
> scsi-init (SYM53C8XX_2) I'm getting:
> 
> May 19 15:39:55 prinz sym0: <895> rev 0x1 at pci 0000:02:09.0 irq 161
> May 19 15:39:55 prinz sym0: Tekram NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking
> May 19 15:39:55 prinz sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
> May 19 15:39:55 prinz scsi0 : sym-2.2.3
> May 19 15:40:08 prinz 0:0:0:0: ABORT operation started.
> May 19 15:40:13 prinz 0:0:0:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
> May 19 15:40:13 prinz 0:0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation started.
> May 19 15:40:18 prinz 0:0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out.
> May 19 15:40:18 prinz 0:0:0:0: BUS RESET operation started.
> May 19 15:40:23 prinz 0:0:0:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out.
> May 19 15:40:23 prinz 0:0:0:0: HOST RESET operation started.
> May 19 15:40:23 prinz sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
> May 19 15:40:28 prinz 0:0:0:0: HOST RESET operation timed-out.
> May 19 15:40:28 prinz 0:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after
> error recovery
> May 19 15:40:33 prinz 0:0:1:0: ABORT operation started.
> May 19 15:40:38 prinz 0:0:1:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
> May 19 15:40:38 prinz 0:0:1:0: DEVICE RESET operation started.
> May 19 15:40:43 prinz 0:0:1:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out.
> May 19 15:40:43 prinz 0:0:1:0: BUS RESET operation started.
> 
> I have backed out drivers-scsi-use-array_size-macro.patch, but to no
> avail. There are other scsi-related patches in the broken-out
> mm-directory, any hint which one to try first? Sometimes they're dependent
> on each other, so I find it not easy to just "patch -R" all "*scsi*.patch"
> files.
> 
> Please see http://www.nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.17-rc4-mm1/  for a
> netsconsole-dmesg for 2.6.17-rc4 (working fine) and a the -mm1.
> 
> I've tried different .configs for -mm1, created with:
> 
> - yes ''  | make oldconfig (config-2.6-mm.2.6.17-rc4-mm1.oldconfig_default)
> - yes 'N' | make oldconfig (config-2.6-mm.2.6.17-rc4-mm1.oldconfig_no)
> - make oldlconfig (interactive, config-2.6-mm.2.6.17-rc4-mm1.oldconfig_my)
> 

Thanks for the report, and thanks for testing.  The full demsg output
really helps.


It goes pear-shaped very early:

--- prinz64-nc.2.6.17-rc4.log	Fri May 19 13:56:34 2006
+++ prinz64-nc.2.6.17-rc4-mm1.log	Fri May 19 13:56:58 2006
@@ -12,20 +12,17 @@
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fefffc00 - 00000000ff000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
 DMI 2.2 present.
+ACPI: Unable to map RSDT header
+node 0 zone Normal missaligned start pfn, enable UNALIGNED_ZONE_BOUNDRIES
+node 0 zone HighMem missaligned start pfn, enable UNALIGNED_ZONE_BOUNDRIES


And from then on, ACPI is kaput.  So your interrupts are kaput, as is the
disk controller.

I had some of this happening too - it's due to some of the MM patches from
Mel and/or Andy.  I also managed to provoke "Too many memory regions,
truncating" out of it.


I hope that's all sorted out now.  Please test next -mm (hopefully
tomorrow) and let us know?

Or, if you're super-keen,
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/x.bz2 is my current rollup
(against 2.6.17-rc4).  It was compilable this morning, but I've since
merged stuff ;) It would be interesting to know if that has fixed the bug.