Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.2-rc3-mm1 | Date | Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:47:36 +0000 |
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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.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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