Re: [SATA] libata-dev queue updated

From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Joerg Sommrey <jo@sommrey.de>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [SATA] libata-dev queue updated
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:43:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4228C87A.8080205@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050304203330.GA14557@sommrey.de>

Joerg Sommrey wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:07:16PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>Joerg Sommrey wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:10:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Joerg Sommrey wrote:
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>>>>>On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:09:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Joerg Sommrey wrote:
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>>>>>>>On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:43:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Joerg Sommrey wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Patch:
>>>>>>>>>>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.11-rc5-bk4-libata-dev1.patch.bz2
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Still not usable here.  The same errors as before when backing up:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Please try 2.6.11 without any patches.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Plain 2.6.11 doesn't work either.  All of 2.6.10-ac11, 2.6.11-rc5,
>>>>>>>2.6.11-rc5 + 2.6.11-rc5-bk4-libata-dev1.patch and 2.6.11 fail with the
>>>>>>>same symptoms. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Reverting to stable 2.6.10-ac8 :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Does reverting the attached patch in 2.6.11 (apply with patch -R) fix 
>>>>>>things?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Still the same with this patch reverted.
>>>>
>>>>Does reverting the attached patch in 2.6.11 fix things?  (apply with 
>>>>patch -R)
>>>>
>>>>This patch reverts the entire libata back to 2.6.10.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I'm confused.  Still the same with everything reverted.  What shall I do
>>>now?
>>
>>Well, first, thanks for your patience in narrowing this down.
>>
>>This means we have eliminated libata as a problem source, but we still 
>>have the rest of the kernel go to through :)
>>
>>Try disabling ACPI with 'acpi=off' or 'pci=biosirq' to see if that fixes 
>>things.
>>
> 
> I tried both settings with plain 2.6.11. Almost the same results, in my
> impression apci=off causes the failure to appear even faster.

Just to make sure I have things right, please tell me if this is correct:

* 2.6.10 vanilla works

* 2.6.11 vanilla does not work

* 2.6.11 vanilla + 2.6.10 libata does not work
   [2.6.10 libata == reverting all libata changes]

Is that all correct?

	Jeff