James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 15:48 +0000, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Randy Dunlap [mailto:randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx] >>> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:27 PM >>> To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev) >>> Cc: lkml; scsi; akpm >>> Subject: Re: in 2.6.23-rc3-git7 in do_cciss_intr >>> >>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:25:24 +0000 Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: >>> >>>>>> Randy, >>>>>> We know of a race condition in cciss_init_one. It's fixed >>>>> in 2.6.26 I believe. Here's the patch: >>>>>> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/7b3 >>>>> 9f >>> 2b77622ab03/4f5f45c008655ca1?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=cciss#4f5f45c008655ca >>>>>> 1 >>>>> >>>>> Mike, >>>>> Sorry, but my fingers have typoed the $subject. My bad. >>>>> Kernel is 2.6.27-rc3-git7 (from above): >>>>> >>>>>>>>> Modules linked in: cciss(+) ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd >>>>>>>>> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-git7 #1 >>>>>>>>> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa001bb68>] [<ffffffffa001bb68>] >>>>>>>>> do_cciss_intr+0x627/0xa6c [cciss] >>>> Hmmmmm, let me know what happens from your retest. I'll >>> look at this >>>> as soon as I finish what I'm doing now. We trying to spin >>> for our test >>>> teams but I have something hopelessly broken. :( >>> It didn't BUG in the retest. That just means that it's more >>> difficult to find/fix, right? >> Yup. > > Randy, > > If you can't reproduce it, could you use the debug information or gdb to > tell us what line in the source code this: > > do_cciss_intr+0x627 > > corresponds to? That might help isolating the problem. Sure, here's an attempt at that. Please let me know if you want it differently or some other info. (gdb) x/20i do_cciss_intr+0x627 0x3b68 <do_cciss_intr+1575>: mov %rdx,0x248(%rax) 0x3b6f <do_cciss_intr+1582>: mov 0x248(%rbx),%rdx 0x3b76 <do_cciss_intr+1589>: mov %rax,0x240(%rdx) 0x3b7d <do_cciss_intr+1596>: jmp 0x3b8b <do_cciss_intr+1610> 0x3b7f <do_cciss_intr+1598>: movq $0x0,0x100c0(%r12) 0x3b8b <do_cciss_intr+1610>: mov 0x234(%rbx),%eax 0x3b91 <do_cciss_intr+1616>: test %eax,%eax 0x3b93 <do_cciss_intr+1618>: jne 0x3f27 <do_cciss_intr+2534> 0x3b99 <do_cciss_intr+1624>: mov 0x250(%rbx),%r14 0x3ba0 <do_cciss_intr+1631>: movl $0x0,0xcc(%r14) 0x3bab <do_cciss_intr+1642>: mov 0x228(%rbx),%r8 0x3bb2 <do_cciss_intr+1649>: mov 0x2(%r8),%dx 0x3bb7 <do_cciss_intr+1654>: test %dx,%dx 0x3bba <do_cciss_intr+1657>: je 0x3f0e <do_cciss_intr+2509> $ addr2line -e cciss.o -f do_cciss_intr+0x627 SA5_fifo_full /home/rdunlap/linsrc/linux-2.6.27-rc3-git7/drivers/block/cciss.h:206 $ ../../scripts/decodecode < cciss.code Code: 8b 83 48 02 00 00 48 39 d8 74 37 49 39 9c 24 c0 00 01 00 75 08 49 89 84 24 c0 00 01 00 48 8b 83 40 02 00 00 48 8b 93 48 02 00 00 <48> 89 90 48 02 00 00 48 8b 93 48 02 00 00 48 89 82 40 02 00 00 /tmp/tmp.HbrjP23089.o: file format elf64-x86-64 Disassembly of section .text: 0000000000000000 <.text>: 0: 8b 83 48 02 00 00 mov 0x248(%rbx),%eax 6: 48 39 d8 cmp %rbx,%rax 9: 74 37 je 0x42 b: 49 39 9c 24 c0 00 01 cmp %rbx,0x100c0(%r12) 12: 00 13: 75 08 jne 0x1d 15: 49 89 84 24 c0 00 01 mov %rax,0x100c0(%r12) 1c: 00 1d: 48 8b 83 40 02 00 00 mov 0x240(%rbx),%rax 24: 48 8b 93 48 02 00 00 mov 0x248(%rbx),%rdx /tmp/tmp.HbrjP23089.o: file format elf64-x86-64 Disassembly of section .text: 0000000000000000 <.text>: 0: 48 89 90 48 02 00 00 mov %rdx,0x248(%rax) 7: 48 8b 93 48 02 00 00 mov 0x248(%rbx),%rdx e: 48 89 82 40 02 00 00 mov %rax,0x240(%rdx) ~Randy -- 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