Hi David, because you're able to access your config fine with some arch LTS kernels, it doesn't make sense to analyze your metadata upfront and the following reasons may cause the failures: - initramfs issue not activating ATARAID mappings properly via dmraid - drivers missing to access the mappings - host protected area changes going together with the kernel changes (eg. the "Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition"); try the libata.ignore_hpa kernel paramaters described in the kernel source Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to test for this one FYI: in general dmraid doesn't rely on a particular controller, just metadata signatures it discovers. You could attach the disks to some other SATA controller and still access your RAID sets. Regards, Heinz On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 17:27 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > dmraid devs, > > Over the past 8-9 months, I have had numerous dmraid related boot failures with > the past 6-8 kernels. It seems like a Russian-roulette type problem. Some > kernels work with dmraid, some cause grub errors. The problem is most acute on > an MSI SLI Platinum Based board (MS-7374), Phenom X4 (9850), with the following > pci bus config: > > [15:48 archangel:/home/david/bugs/aa] # lspci > 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller > (rev a2) > 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] LPC Bridge (rev a2) > 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1) > 00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller > (rev a1) > 00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2) > 00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller > (rev a1) > 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev a1) > 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 > Controller (rev a1) > 00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev a1) > 00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 > Controller (rev a1) > 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1) > 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High > Definition Audio (rev a1) > 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1) > 00:09.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA > Controller (RAID mode) (rev a2) > 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP77 Ethernet (rev a2) > 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge > (rev a1) > 00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge > (rev a1) > 00:13.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1) > 00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1) > 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, > Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration > 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, > Sempron] Address Map > 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, > Sempron] DRAM Controller > 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, > Sempron] Miscellaneous Control > 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, > Sempron] Link Control > 01:06.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model 5610 > (rev 01) > 01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] > IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev c0) > 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2) > 04:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA > Controller (rev 03) > 04:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA > Controller (rev 03) > > full dmidecode information at: > http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlute/bugs/aa-dmidecode.txt Not accessible. > > Booting the current Arch Linux kernel (2.6.35.8-1) fails and the boot hangs at > the very start. The kernel line I use hasn't changed in a long time: > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap5 ro vga=0x31a > > Booting first stopped with the following error: > > Booting 'Arch Linux on Archangel' > > root (hd1,5) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, Partition type 0x83 > Kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_baacca_jap5 ro vga=794 > > Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition > > Press any key to continue... > > Upgrading to device-mapper-2.02.75-1 completely changes the error to: > > Error 5: Partition table invalid or corrupt > > Rebooting to 2.6.35.7-1, or 2.6.32.25-1 (the Arch LTS kernel) works just fine. > So the problem is not a partition or partition table problem. The Arch Linux > developer (Tobias Powalowski) has referred me here as the problem isn't a kernel > problem, but something strange that is happening with dmraid. > > The only guess I have is that it is a dmraid/GeForce controller issue that is > triggered when dmraid loads under certain circumstances. > > This box has 2 dmraid arrays: > > [17:15 archangel:/home/david/bugs/aa] # dmraid -r > /dev/sdd: nvidia, "nvidia_baaccaja", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 > /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 > /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_baaccaja", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 > /dev/sdc: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 > > [17:15 archangel:/home/david/bugs/aa] # dmraid -s > *** Active Set > name : nvidia_baaccaja > size : 1465149056 > stride : 128 > type : mirror > status : ok > subsets: 0 > devs : 2 > spares : 0 > *** Active Set > name : nvidia_fdaacfde > size : 976773120 > stride : 128 > type : mirror > status : ok > subsets: 0 > devs : 2 > spares : 0 > > All disks check out fine with smartctl, so it isn't a disk-hardware problem. > The detailed information on the GeForce controller (lspci -vv) is: > > 00:09.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA > Controller (RAID mode) (rev a2) > Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7374 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+ > Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- > <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 28 > Region 0: I/O ports at b080 [size=8] > Region 1: I/O ports at b000 [size=4] > Region 2: I/O ports at ac00 [size=8] > Region 3: I/O ports at a880 [size=4] > Region 4: I/O ports at a800 [size=16] > Region 5: Memory at f9e76000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > Capabilities: [8c] SATA HBA v1.0 InCfgSpace > Capabilities: [b0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ > Address: 00000000fee0f00c Data: 4191 > Capabilities: [ec] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+ > Kernel driver in use: ahci > Kernel modules: ahci > > > Basically, I'm stumped here. Nothing has changed with this box in over a > year (same grub menu.lst, same hardware), the only oddity is that in 4 of the > last 6 kernels or so have failed to boot with this weird grub error, that has > nothing to do with grub (because it boots all other kernels fine), but is > 1Gsomething that results from dmraid and the way it gets initialized (which I'm > clueless about). > > Let me know what you think and let me know what data or testing you want me > to do. I'll be happy to do it. I last filed this bug with Arch against 2.6.35-1 > and the problem was never fixed, but (solved) by upgrading to the (next - > testing kernel), so the actual problem was never found. The url to the closed > report is: > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20918? > > Thanks for any ideas or help you can give. > -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
