Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:28:18 +0200 From: Dan Aloni <da-x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: aic94xx breaks with SATA drives that have medium errors Hello, I'm currently testing the aic94xx driver from the latest git version of Linux 2.6.19-rc generic x86_64 port merged with the aic94xx-sas-2.6 git, on a Supermicro X7DB3 board. It seems that the driver breaks badly when my SATA drives have medium errors. I deliberatly cause medium errors in order to test the error handling of the driver coupled with the contoller. Everything works okay until I perform a read I/O to the media-error-causing location. Immediately I get: aic94xx: escb_tasklet_complete: phy2: REQ_TASK_ABORT But the I/O only returns to the SCSI layer after its full designated timeout, instead of returning quickly with MEDIUM_ERROR. After that particular I/O fails, every I/O to the driver will immediately return as aborted. Unloading and loading the driver reverses the problem but may crash the kernel not long after printing this: Nov 28 02:13:58 pro210 kernel: aic94xx: Uh-oh! Pending is not empty! Nov 28 02:13:58 pro210 kernel: aic94xx: freeing from pending Nov 28 02:13:58 pro210 kernel: aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver version 1.0.2 unloaded Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: Call Trace: Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff80271313>] dump_trace+0xb3/0x450 Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff802716f3>] show_trace+0x43/0x60 Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff80271725>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20 Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff802c5327>] kmem_cache_destroy+0xa7/0x110 Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff8804f500>] :libsas:sas_class_exit+0x10/0x12 Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff802a96a0>] sys_delete_module+0x220/0x280 Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff8026411e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: [<00002b82def05959>] Nov 28 02:14:01 pro210 kernel: Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache sas_task Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: Call Trace: Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff80271313>] dump_trace+0xb3/0x450 Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff802716f3>] show_trace+0x43/0x60 Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff80271725>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20 Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff8023acf8>] kmem_cache_create+0x578/0x5c0 Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff8803d022>] :libsas:sas_class_init+0x22/0x34 Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff802ab7d6>] sys_init_module+0x1956/0x1ba0 Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: [<ffffffff8026411e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: [<00002aaabe27ea4c>] Nov 28 02:14:05 pro210 kernel: - Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - 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