On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 07:44:02AM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > I believe this issue is a result of the aacraid_commit_reset patch (as > posted for scsi-misc-2.6, enclosed to permit testing) not yet propagated > to the 2.6.22-rc3 tree. > > This is the adapter taking longer than 3 minutes to start after a reset. > I seriously doubt either of these patches suggested below will have an > affect. And if they do, they are not root cause, one reduces the chances > that the card will be reset during initialization (thus applied would > likely mitigate this problem), the other prevents a panic when the > Adapter is reset (removed, would result in dogs and cats sleeping with > each other). > > Please use kernel parameter aacraid.startup_timeout=540 (merely larger > than the default 180 seconds) when spawning the kexec or see if the > aacraid_commit_reset.patch resolves the issue to confirm my hunch. > Hi Mark, During a normal kexec (not kdump) adapter reset should not have taken place at all. device_shutdown() routines should have taken care to bring the device to a known sane state in first kernel so that second kernel can initialize it without doing a reset. With reset patch, now reset triggers on every kexec. Previously that was not the case with kexec and adapter used to come up. I think this needs to be looked into. Thanks Vivek - 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
