On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Geza Lucz <geza@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I don’t know if this is the right place to report this and whether this is
> more like a Centos kernel issue.
>
> Since Centos 6.8, the megaraid_sas driver seems to be somewhat broken –
> which as I understand is a backport of the up-to-date driver to their kernel
> version. It is still partially usable, but as soon as I need to rebuild an
> array, instead of the scan message at the end I get a bunch of kernel error
> messages. There are so many of these that the kernel logger uses too much
> CPU and eventually the log fills up the partition, so the server needs to be
> rebooted. So technically I lose all hotplug functionality.
>
> Probably the same thing happens when the array degrades.
>
> I’m sending this report here, because there is absolutely no mention of
> similar problems on the internet, yet the problem is fully reproducible and
> real.
>
> I’m using Dell Perc 6i at the moment.
>
> Thanks
As we discussed, this is regression and found the proposed fix. Can
you try below patch. ?
---
megaraid_sas_base.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/megaraid_sas_base.c b/megaraid_sas_base.c
index d15e252..bee0895 100755
--- a/megaraid_sas_base.c
+++ b/megaraid_sas_base.c
@@ -5309,6 +5309,12 @@ megasas_get_pd_list(struct megasas_instance *instance)
struct MR_PD_ADDRESS *pd_addr;
dma_addr_t ci_h = 0;
+ if (instance->pd_list_not_supported) {
+ dev_info(&instance->pdev->dev, "MR_DCMD_PD_LIST_QUERY "
+ "not supported by firmware\n");
+ return ret;
+ }
+
cmd = megasas_get_cmd(instance);
if (!cmd) {
--
We have verified on our local setup, but waiting for more testing by
Test team to make sure it is good to post.
Thanks, Kashyap
>
>
> Jun 25 08:49:29 ns8 kernel: [ 757.358015] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:29 ns8 kernel: [ 757.379016] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:29 ns8 kernel: [ 757.400018] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:29 ns8 kernel: [ 757.421021] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:29 ns8 kernel: [ 757.442017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:29 ns8 kernel: [ 757.463015] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:29 ns8 kernel: [ 757.484021] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:29 ns8 kernel: [ 757.505017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:29 ns8 kernel: [ 757.526021] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.547017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.568021] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.589017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.610017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.631017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.652017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.673016] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.694017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.715016] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.736017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.757017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.778017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.799017] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.820018] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
> Jun 25 08:49:30 ns8 kernel: [ 757.841018] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: DCMD
> failed/not supported by firmware: megasas_get_pd_list 4115
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