On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 02:13:31PM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > Since we have know good and bad points, could you possibly git-bisect this > to help troubleshoot? Also, are you seeing similar problems with Linus' > latest tree? OK, I've bisected it on the Linus tree (all these near-full recompiles take time...) and this is the result: % git bisect good bed475c4cde5d12f537f445bdd0a5a3bb5684481 is first bad commit commit bed475c4cde5d12f537f445bdd0a5a3bb5684481 Author: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Aug 13 21:36:58 2008 -0700 [SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't leak SG-DMA mappings while aborting commands. Original code inadvertently cleared an SRB's 'flags' while aborting; causing a follow-on scsi_dma_unmap() to be potentially missed. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :040000 040000 51f314385c1a5fae8af021a73c65904d9777d684 d4c20c01bc7c5bce15f81b90fc42621aa592b295 M drivers % git bisect log git-bisect start 'drivers/scsi/qla2xxx' # good: [20b8df8e5501bac243e64c0c8c52907735a0041b] Linux 2.6.25 git-bisect good 20b8df8e5501bac243e64c0c8c52907735a0041b # bad: [7686ad5606f08d9dfb33a2087a36c8366366015b] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input git-bisect bad 7686ad5606f08d9dfb33a2087a36c8366366015b # good: [6c2f527cb84cbd7d2d8a668c979e70bf78980ccc] [SCSI] qla2xxx: Convert vport_sem to a mutex git-bisect good 6c2f527cb84cbd7d2d8a668c979e70bf78980ccc # good: [da57bf8f25faf97308d9f4d0b87e8b69317a2fdf] [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct vport management of MBA_PORT_UPDATE. git-bisect good da57bf8f25faf97308d9f4d0b87e8b69317a2fdf # good: [bf6583b5831d3195c45f98ec3016499389cbe18f] [SCSI] qla2xxx: suppress uninitialized-var warning git-bisect good bf6583b5831d3195c45f98ec3016499389cbe18f # bad: [bed475c4cde5d12f537f445bdd0a5a3bb5684481] [SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't leak SG-DMA mappings while aborting commands. git-bisect bad bed475c4cde5d12f537f445bdd0a5a3bb5684481 # good: [00eabe7c4478f38b42d632763c4878ced5a1f25c] [SCSI] qla2xxx: fix msleep compile error git-bisect good 00eabe7c4478f38b42d632763c4878ced5a1f25c # good: [a7a28504bfa61dc6caa495f55c52623d10b42b32] [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct vport-state management issues during ISP-ABORT. git-bisect good a7a28504bfa61dc6caa495f55c52623d10b42b32 Let me know if you still want me to try that other patch... -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- 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