Re: aacraid: Adaptec 2200S support broken on x86_64 by commit 94cf6ba11b068b8a8f68a1e88bffb6827e92124b

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James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 15:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:37:04 +0200
>> Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hillier, Gernot wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi there!
>>>>
>>>> On our AMD64 machines equipped with old Adaptec 2200S controllers, we
>>>> experienced a regression when updating to 2.6.25. The machines won't
>>>> boot anymore (in a reasonable time), but instead spit out tons of those
>>>> messages:
>>>> aac_srb: aac_fib_send failed with status: 8195
>>>>
>>>> This is already reported in quite some places including LKML:
>>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/12/365
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450444
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453472
>>>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/red-hat-31/aacsrb-aacfibsend-failed-with-status-8195-651078/
>>>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5077382.html?sid=a51c3a0fba6aa854c0b49b8fae5cc15a
>>>>
>>>> We found that this regression seems to be introduced by the bugfix
>>>> "aacraid: fix driver failure with Dell PowerEdge
>>>> Expandable RAID Controller 3/Di":
>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=94cf6ba11b068b8a8f68a1e88bffb6827e92124b
>>>>
>>>> By simply removing the quirk flag for our controller, we could boot again.
>>>>
>>>> We did some quick stress tests on an AMD64bit machine with 16GB of RAM 
>>>> and saw no problems after this change:
>>>>
>>>> diff -ur linux-2.6.25.11-0.1.ct1.orig/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c linux-2.6.25.11-0.1.ct1/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c
>>>> --- linux-2.6.25.11-0.1.ct1.orig/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c	2008-09-15 16:07:14.000000000 +0100
>>>> +++ linux-2.6.25.11-0.1.ct1/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c	2008-09-15 16:09:26.000000000 +0100
>>>> @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
>>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "catapult        ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* catapult */
>>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "tomcat          ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* tomcat */
>>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "Adaptec 2120S   ", 1, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Adaptec 2120S (Crusader) */
>>>> -	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "Adaptec 2200S   ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan) */
>>>> +	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "Adaptec 2200S   ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG }, /* Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan) */
>>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "Adaptec 2200S   ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan-2m) */
>>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "Legend  ", "Legend S220     ", 1, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Legend S220 (Legend Crusader) */
>>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "Legend  ", "Legend S230     ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Legend S230 (Legend Vulcan) */
>>>>
>>>> Can this be safely changed/merged? Or is this the wrong way to fix it?
>>>>
>>>> Please note that we also have machines equipped with newer Adaptec 2230S
>>>> controllers (PCI ID 9005:0286) which run perfectly with the current driver.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Hi,
>>> from what I read about this it seems to me that people are complaining also about issues with the 2120S Controller.
>>> So if the patch is taken in this form the original patch should be extended to cover both controllers.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> diff -Naurp linux-2.6.18.i686b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c linux-2.6.18.i686p6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c
>>> --- linux-2.6.18.i686b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c	2008-09-25 18:06:23.000000000 +0200
>>> +++ linux-2.6.18.i686p6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c	2008-10-03 12:12:06.000000000 +0200
>>> @@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ static struct aac_driver_ident aac_drive
>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "percraid", "DELL    ", "PERCRAID        ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* PERC 3/Di (Boxster/PERC3DiB) */
>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "catapult        ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* catapult */
>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "tomcat          ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* tomcat */
>>> -	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "Adaptec 2120S   ", 1, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Adaptec 2120S (Crusader) */
>>> -	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "Adaptec 2200S   ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan) */
>>> +	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "Adaptec 2120S   ", 1, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG },		      /* Adaptec 2120S (Crusader) */
>>> +	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "Adaptec 2200S   ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG },		      /* Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan) */
>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "ADAPTEC ", "Adaptec 2200S   ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan-2m) */
>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "Legend  ", "Legend S220     ", 1, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Legend S220 (Legend Crusader) */
>>>  	{ aac_rx_init, "aacraid",  "Legend  ", "Legend S230     ", 2, AAC_QUIRK_31BIT | AAC_QUIRK_34SG | AAC_QUIRK_SCSI_32 }, /* Legend S230 (Legend Vulcan) */
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I added this to my tree with Tomas's title&changelog (thanks - I was
>> about to whine about that).  Thanks Thomas for the reminder.  I tagged
>> it as backportable to 2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x and 2.6.27.x.
>>     
>
> Could someone from Adaptec and Dell please verify that this is correct?
> Mark Salyzyn no longer works there, but the aacraid@xxxxxxxxxxx address
> is supposed to still be working.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>   
Adding Achim Leubner from Adaptec to the CC:list,
he is the new person responsible for the driver.
Achim what do you think about this patch ?

Thanks,
Tomas
>
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