On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 15:24 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > I have had a tough time tracking this one down, however I can say for > certain that the 29320 is really having trouble if a LUN is power > cycled. > > I don't have access to a BUS analyzer right now, but here is my > regression. > > 1. Hook an external SCSI array/disk to a 29320. > 2. Power up SCSI array/disk > 3. Power up PC with 29320. > 4. When PC has booted, login and test device by creating a file > system, eg. mkfs /dev/sda (or whatever disk the array is called on > ur machine). > 5. Power cycle array/disk > 6. Retest device with another 'mkfs /dev/sda' ... panic/crash/lock-up > ensues. > > > > This did not happen in 2.6.15.7 but did appear in 2.6.16 and higher. > >From 2.6.19-rc2 I at least get something from a crash without the entire box locking up on me. The process tdg_2 is a 'test data generator' basically it writes data to the scsi disk in a testable pattern that is later validated. ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:594! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc iscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ipv6 video sbs i2c_ec i2c_core button battery asus_acpi ac parport_pc lp parport snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus sg snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm floppy snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc serio_raw ide_cd skge cdrom pcspkr dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_mod aic79xx scsi_transport_spi sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0169562>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.19-rc2 #1) EIP is at kmem_cache_free+0x29/0x6d eax: 00000000 ebx: dffae300 ecx: dff91b80 edx: c1a00000 esi: dffaaf80 edi: 00000000 ebp: d3f324c0 esp: d3fb9dd0 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process tdg_2 (pid: 2362, ti=d3fb9000 task=dfd6cd50 task.ti=d3fb9000) Stack: dffae300 dffaaf80 00000000 c0154448 00000000 d3e09a80 dffaaf80 d3e09a80 c018bafc 00001000 00000000 c018b822 e088efa0 00001000 00000000 0000000a d3fb9ef0 d43f76c8 00003000 00000000 00000001 c130cac8 00008000 00000000 Call Trace: [<c0154448>] mempool_free+0x66/0x6b [<c018bafc>] bio_free+0x25/0x30 [<c018b822>] bio_put+0x28/0x29 [<e088efa0>] scsi_execute_async+0x15f/0x33d [scsi_mod] [<e09c9913>] sg_common_write+0x704/0x772 [sg] [<e09c9ba6>] sg_new_write+0x225/0x248 [sg] [<e09cae45>] sg_write+0x106/0x33a [sg] [<c016dae7>] vfs_write+0xa8/0x159 [<c016e114>] sys_write+0x41/0x67 [<c0103dc9>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79 DWARF2 unwinder stuck at sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79 Leftover inexact backtrace: [<c031007b>] sleep_on+0x1e/0x6c ======================= Code: 5f c3 89 c1 8d 82 00 00 00 40 c1 e8 0c 57 89 d7 6b d0 28 03 15 00 d6 50 c0 56 53 8b 02 f6 c4 40 74 03 8b 52 0c 8b 02 84 c0 78 08 <0f> 0b 52 02 e6 6b 33 c0 39 4a 20 74 08 0f 0b ca 0d e6 6b 33 c0 EIP: [<c0169562>] kmem_cache_free+0x29/0x6d SS:ESP 0068:d3fb9dd0 Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html