From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757371AbXKYUjy (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:39:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757211AbXKYUjl (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:39:41 -0500 Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.35]:41681 "EHLO smtp5-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757109AbXKYUji (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:39:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4749DD87.5020206@free.fr> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:39:35 +0100 From: Laurent Riffard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071030 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: Hannes Reinecke , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1: I/O error, system hangs References: <20071120204525.ff27ac98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4744A6F2.4030302@free.fr> <20071121144116.c932727b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4746814F.80502@free.fr> <4746866B.5070207@suse.de> <4746BB9D.2030508@suse.de> <4747135C.60205@free.fr> <1195886569.3195.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47481FA6.9050506@free.fr> <1195910809.3195.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4748ACC7.4010509@free.fr> <1195976275.3427.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1195976275.3427.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le 25.11.2007 08:37, James Bottomley a écrit : > On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 23:59 +0100, Laurent Riffard wrote: >> Le 24.11.2007 14:26, James Bottomley a écrit : >>> OK, could you post dmesgs again, please. I actually tested this >> with an >>> aic79xx card, and for me it does cause Domain Validation to succeed >>> again. >> James, >> >> Here is a dmesg produced by 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 + your patch "separates >> the >> BLOCK and QUIESCE states >> correctly" (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/24/8). >> >> How to reproduce : >> - boot >> - switch to a text console >> - capture dmesg in a file, sync, etc. There are 3 I/O errors, but the >> system does work. >> - switch to X console, log in the Gnome Desktop, the system partially >> hangs. >> - switch back to a text console: dmesg(1) still works, it shows some >> additonal I/O errors. At this point, any disk access makes the system >> completely hung. >> >> Additionnal data: >> - the I/O errors always happen on the same blocks. >> >> plain text document attachment (dmesg-2.6.24-rc3-mm1-patched) > [...] >> [ 25.521256] scsi0 : pata_via >> [ 25.521711] scsi1 : pata_via >> [ 25.524089] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xb800 irq 14 >> [ 25.524176] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xb808 irq 15 >> [ 25.683141] ata1.00: ATA-5: ST340016A, 3.75, max UDMA/100 >> [ 25.683208] ata1.00: 78165360 sectors, multi 16: LBA >> [ 25.683475] ata1.01: ATA-7: Maxtor 6Y080L0, YAR41BW0, max UDMA/133 >> [ 25.684116] ata1.01: 160086528 sectors, multi 16: LBA >> [ 25.691127] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 >> [ 25.699142] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/100 >> [ 26.170860] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4165B, DL05, max UDMA/33 >> [ 26.171562] ata2.01: ATAPI: CD-950E/AKU, A4Q, max MWDMA2, CDB intr >> [ 26.330839] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 >> [ 26.490828] ata2.01: configured for MWDMA2 >> [ 26.503014] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST340016A 3.75 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 >> [ 26.504670] scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor 6Y080L0 YAR4 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 >> [ 26.509842] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4165B DL05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 >> [ 26.511673] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM E-IDE CD-950E/AKU A4Q PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 > [...] >> [ 60.216113] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK >> [ 60.216124] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 16460 > > I think this one's quite easy: PATA devices in libata are queue depth 1 > (since they don't do NCQ). Thus, they're peculiarly sensitive to the > bug where we fail over queue depth requests. > > On the other hand, I don't see how a filesystem request is getting > REQ_FAILFAST ... unless there's a bio or readahead issue involved. > Anyway, could you try this patch: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=119592627425498 > > Which should fix the queue depth issue, and see if the errors go away? No, this one doesn't help... -- laurent