On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:54:38AM -0400, Alan D. Brunelle wrote: > Vivek Goyal wrote: > >> > > > > This one just means that there is a device out there which has interrupt > > line asserted and there is no associated driver to handle those. Hence > > kernel sees a flood of interrupts and disables interrupt line. That's > > why we boot with paramter "irqpoll". In kdump situations, these things > > are expected. You can ignore this error. > > > > Thanks - that makes me feel better about that. > > > >> 2. Very soon thereafter, I start seeing: > >> > >> [ 4.671112] sda:<3>ata1: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x1 > >> notifier_error 0x0 g0 > >> [ 34.681112] ata1: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0xd, resp_flags 0x1 > >> [ 34.681112] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 > >> frozen > >> [ 34.691112] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 > >> dma 4096 n > >> [ 34.691112] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask > >> 0x4 (time) > >> [ 34.701112] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } > >> [ 35.051112] ata1: soft resetting link > >> [ 35.211112] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > >> [ 35.251112] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 > >> [ 35.251112] ata1: EH complete > >> > >> This goes on "forever" - and the system fails to boot. > >> > > > > This is problem with SATA. It is not able to reset the device and recover > > and re-initialize. I think we shall have to open a bug for this for the > > SATA driver owner. > > > OK - could you send me a quick pointer on how to open a bug? > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ Thanks Vivek