linux-kernel - Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

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Message-ID: <20070209120314.GA19001@atjola.homenet>
Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:03:14 +0100
From:	Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@....de>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Larry Walton <lwalton@...l.com>, s0348365@....ed.ac.uk,
	pomac@...or.com, chunkeey@....de, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

On 2007.02.04 02:13:51 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2007.02.02 23:48:14 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > There's a patch in -mm (sata_nv-use-adma-for-nodata-commands.patch) 
> > which should hopefully avoid this problem for the cache flush commands, 
> > at least - can you try that one out? You'll have to apply the other 
> > sata_nv patches in -mm first, i.e. this order:
> > 
> > http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/broken-out/sata_nv-cleanup-adma-error-handling-v2.patch
> > http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/broken-out/sata_nv-cleanup-adma-error-handling-v2-cleanup.patch
> > http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/broken-out/sata_nv-use-adma-for-nodata-commands.patch
> 
> Got 2.6.20-rc7 with them applied now (the rejects seemed trivial enough
> for me to fix them). Let's see how that works out...

After about 1.5 days of uptime, an involuntary reboot and another 3
days of uptime, no sign of an exception. No stress testing was done,
but a few disk intensive actions did happen, at least more than with
that -rc6 that did throw an exception at me.

Björn
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