On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:12:28 +0900 Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:33:35PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > One of my test machines hangs at boot when booting 2.6.18rc4. > > > > It seems to busy loop somewhere because the CPU fans spin up. > > > > The machine doesn't have any disks (just two PATAPI CD-ROMs) > > and boots over the network. > > > > The SATA drivers are compiled into the kernel (x86-64 defconfig) > > > > Strangely it seems to only hang with the 64bit kernel -- when > > I boot a 32bit kernel it usually comes up. It is likely some timing > > issue because booting with initcall_debug also seems to make > > the problem go away. I verified with a printk and without initcall_debug > > that the hang still happens in svia_init. > > Hello, Andi. > > Can you try the following patch? This patch seems to fix the problem. Thanks. I get now just libata version 2.00 loaded. sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 2.0 GSI 17 sharing vector 0xB9 and IRQ 17 IOAPIC[0]: Set PCI routing entry (1-20 -> 0xb9 -> IRQ 17 Mode:1 Active:1) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 9 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x2C30 ctl 0x2C26 bmdma 0x2C00 irq 185 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x2C28 ctl 0x2C22 bmdma 0x2C08 irq 185 scsi0 : sata_via ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x2C37 scsi1 : sata_via ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x2C2F ... continues booting without any noticeable delay... -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
