Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:31:49 +0200 | From | Vladimir Lazarenko <> | Subject | Re: Status of Marvell SATA driver (was Re: Trying latest sata_mv - and getting freeze) |
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>>>>>My hardware is SMP Supermicro with 6 disks on >>>>>Marvell MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 03) >>>>>and the sata_mv.c is version 0.25 dated 22 Oct 2005 >>>>> >>>>>The thing works with "old" mvsata340 driver, but the "new" kernel with >>>>>your driver freezes when it starts to probe disks. Even Magic SysRq >>>>>does not work. The last lines I see on screen are like this: >>>>> >>>>>sata_mv version 0.25 >>>>>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 56 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 >>>>>sata_mv(0000:02:03.0) 32 slots 8 ports unknown mode IRQ via MSI >>>>>ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0 ctl 0xF8C22120 bmdma 0x0 irq 185 >>>>>ata2: .... <same things> 0xF8C24120 ... >>>>>... >>>>>ata8: .... <same thing> 0xF8C38120 ... >>>>>ATA: abnormal status 0x80 on port 0xF8C2211C >>>>>... <five more lines identical to the above> >>>>>ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 781422768 sectors: LBA48 >>>>> >>>>>- and at this point it freezes hard. >>>>>Any suggestions for me? Any information I can collect to help >>>>>troubleshooting? >>> >>>[...] >>> >>> >>>>In the meantime, try turning off SMP and seeing if that makes a >>>>difference. There still might be a problem with the spinlocks and if so >>>>it should go away in uniprocessor mode. >>> >>>'nosmp' makes no difference. >> >> >>Booting with nosmp isn't enough, you need to compile the kernel with >>CONFIG_SMP turned off. Otherwise the spinlocks will still be used and >>could cause a hard hang. > > > Yeah, that was it! It boots with the kernel compiled for UP. > (did not yet have a chance to check how it works). > Any chance that somebody competent would fix the driver for SMP?
Umm, that sounds freakingly familiar to what I just had with sata_nv... Try "noapic" in smp mode, will that help?
And just in case, did you try 2.6.14-rc5? That was the kernel that fixed my similar problem "out-of-the-box".
Regards, Vladimir [unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature] | |