On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:39:29 -0500 Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:35:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ten million is close enough to infinity for me to assume that we broke the
> > driver and that's never going to terminate.
> >
>
> how about this? doesn't break things on my pa8800:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> index 463f119..ef01cb1 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> @@ -1037,10 +1037,13 @@ restart_test:
> /*
> * Wait 'til done (with timeout)
> */
> - for (i=0; i<SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT; i++)
> + do {
> if (INB(np, nc_istat) & (INTF|SIP|DIP))
> break;
> - if (i>=SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
> + msleep(10);
> + } while (i++ < SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT);
> +
> + if (i >= SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
> printf ("CACHE TEST FAILED: timeout.\n");
> return (0x20);
> }
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
> index ad07880..85c483b 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
> @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
> /*
> * Misc.
> */
> -#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (10000000)
> +#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (1000)
> #define BUS_8_BIT 0
> #define BUS_16_BIT 1
>
That might be the fix, but do we know what we're actually fixing? afaik
2.6.24-rc3 doesn't get this timeout, 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 does get it and we
don't know why?
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