Re: 2.6.2-rc3-mm1

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Tuesday 03 February 2004 18:32, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 of February 2004 18:39, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2004 07:58, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2-rc3
> > >/2 .6 .2-rc3-mm1/
> > >
> > >
> > > - There is a debug patch in here which detects when someone calls
> > >   i_size_write() without holding the inode's i_sem.  It generates a
> > > warning and a stack backtrace.  We know that XFS generates such a
> > > trace. It will turn itself off after the first ten warnings.  Please
> > > don't report the XFS case.
> > >
> > > - Added the CPU hotplug code.
> > >
> > > - This kernel is currently broken on ppc64.  Something to do with the
> > >   sched-domains patch although at this stage we do not know whether the
> > >   problem lies with that patch or with the ppc64 code.
> > >
> > > - A big Altix update
> > >
> > > - Latest versions of various other developers' trees.  See below for
> > >   details.
> > >
> > > - Various other fixes
> >
> > Doesn't boot on this machine. It hangs after:
> >
> > NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
> >     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> >     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> > hda: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive
> > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > hdc: CD-RW CR52, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > hdd: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616Q, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> > PDC20270: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:01:09.0
> > PDC20270: chipset revision 2
> > PDC20270: 100% native mode on irq 17
> >     ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> >     ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> > hde: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive
> > ide2 at 0xc000-0xc007,0xc402 on irq 17
> > hdg: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive
> > ide3 at 0xc800-0xc807,0xcc02 on irq 17
> > hda: max request size: 128KiB
> > hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
> > UDMA(133) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
> > hde: max request size: 128KiB
> >
> > 30 seconds later, I get something like:
> >
> > hde: lost interrupt
> > hde: lost interrupt
>
> It seems kernel hangs in ide-disk.c, idedisk_setup()->write_cache()->...
>
> > The kernel does not recover. Presumably it is a problem specific to my
> > PDC IDE controller.
>
> Do you run with Promise BIOS disabled?  If so please try booting kernel
> with "hde=autotune hdg=autotune" parameters.  If still no-go, try this
> patch:

Neither suggestion changes the behaviour. I've got the BIOS enabled, but in 
the past it's made no difference. I still see lost interrupts.

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Cheers,
Alistair.

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