On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 13:57 +0100, Laurent Riffard wrote: > Le 24.11.2007 07:42, James Bottomley a écrit : > > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 18:52 +0100, Laurent Riffard wrote: > >> Le 23.11.2007 12:38, Hannes Reinecke a écrit : > >>> Hannes Reinecke wrote: > >>>> Laurent Riffard wrote: > >>>>> Le 21.11.2007 23:41, Andrew Morton a écrit : > >>>>>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:45:22 +0100 > >>>>>> Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Le 21.11.2007 05:45, Andrew Morton a écrit : > >>>>>>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc3/2.6.24-rc3-mm1/ > >>>>>>> Hello, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> My system hangs shortly after I logged in Gnome desktop. SysRq-W shows > >>>>>>> that a bunch of task are blocked in "D" state, they seem to wait for > >>>>>>> some I/O completion. I can try to hand-copy some data if requested. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I found these messages in dmesg: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> ~$ grep -C2 end_request dmesg-2.6.24-rc3-mm1 > >>>>>>> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > >>>>>>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK > >>>>>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 16460 > >>>>>>> ReiserFS: sda7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal > >>>>>>> ReiserFS: sda7: using ordered data mode > >>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>> ReiserFS: sda7: Using r5 hash to sort names > >>>>>>> sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK > >>>>>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 19632 > >>>>>>> sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK > >>>>>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 40037363 > >>>>>>> Adding 1048568k swap on /dev/mapper/vglinux1-lvswap. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1048568k > >>>>>>> lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> These errors occur *only* with 2.6.24-rc3-mm1, they are 100% reproducible. > >>>>>>> 2.6.24-rc3 and 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 are fine. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Maybe something is broken in pata_via driver ? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Could be - libata-reimplement-ata_acpi_cbl_80wire-using-ata_acpi_gtm_xfermask.patch > >>>>>> and pata_amd-pata_via-de-couple-programming-of-pio-mwdma-and-udma-timings.patch > >>>>>> touch pata_via.c. > >>>>> None of the above... > >>>>> > >>>>> I did a bisection, it spotted git-scsi-misc.patch. > >>>>> I just run 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 + revert-git-scsi-misc.patch, and it works fine. > >>>>> > >>>>> I guess commit 8655a546c83fc43f0a73416bbd126d02de7ad6c0 "[SCSI] Do not > >>>>> requeue requests if REQ_FAILFAST is set" is the real culprit. The other > >>>>> commits are touching documentation or drivers I don't use. I'll try > >>>>> to revert only this one this evening. > >> I can confirm : reverting commit 8655a546c83fc43f0a73416bbd126d02de7ad6c0 > >> does fix the problem. > >> > >>>> Hmm. Weird. I'll have a look into it. Apparently I'll be returning an error where > >>>> I shouldn't. Checking ... > >>>> > >>> Ok, found it. We are blocking even special commands (ie requests with PREEMPT not set) > >>> when FAILFAST is set. Which is clearly wrong. The attached patch fixes this. > >> Sorry, it's not enough. 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 + your patch still hangs with I/O errors. > > > > I think the problem is the way we treat BLOCKED and QUIESCED (the latter > > is the state that the domain validation uses and which we cannot kill > > fastfail on). It's definitely wrong to kill fastfail requests when the > > state is QUIESCE. > > > > This patch (which is applied on top of Hannes original) separates the > > BLOCK and QUIESCE states correctly ... does this fix the problem? > > > No, it doesn't help... (2.6.24-rc3-mm1 + your patch still has problems) 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 - 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