On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:49:32 -0700 > > > Hmm... Still looking... > > Look at how the driver registers the IRQ handler before the host has > been registered with the SCSI layer. > > That leads to a window of time where the shost hasn't been setup > fully, yet ISRs can come in and trigger DPC thread events, such as > loop resyncs, which expect the transport area to be setup. > > But it won't be setup, because scsi_add_host() hasn't finished yet. > > Note that in Josip's crash log, we don't even see the > > qla_printk(KERN_INFO, ha, "\n" > " QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: %s\n" > " QLogic %s - %s\n" > " ISP%04X: %s @ %s hdma%c, host#=%ld, fw=%s\n", > ... > > message yet. > > Which means that the crash occurs between qla2x00_request_irqs() > and printing that message. Certainly possible, yes... Josip, could you try out the following patch which defers enablement of RISC interrupts until after scsi_add_host()? Thanks, AV --- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c index 45a3b93..bf41887 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c @@ -1834,7 +1834,6 @@ clear_risc_ints: WRT_REG_WORD(®->isp.hccr, HCCR_CLR_HOST_INT); } spin_unlock_irq(&ha->hardware_lock); - ha->isp_ops->enable_intrs(ha); fail: return ret; diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c index fcbcd44..3433441 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c @@ -1739,6 +1739,8 @@ qla2x00_probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id) if (ret) goto probe_failed; + ha->isp_ops->enable_intrs(ha); + scsi_scan_host(host); qla2x00_alloc_sysfs_attr(ha); -- 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