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Message-ID: <40a4ed591003150630n54e3d1e7v267988daf91a5037@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:30:35 +0100 From: Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@...il.com> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates for 2.6.34 On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@...il.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote: >> On 03/15/2010 03:33 AM, Zeno Davatz wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Jeff Garzik<jeff@...zik.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 03/09/2010 11:26 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello, Linus, Jeff. >>>>> >>>>> On 03/10/2010 07:12 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Coincedentally, it looks like someone else just reported the same >>>>>> problem, with 2.6.34-rc1. >>>>>> >>>>>> It definitely sounds like a race. READ DMA is a DMA command as the >>>>>> name >>>>>> implies, so that eliminates the possibility of polling-related paths in >>>>>> ata_sff_interrupt (libata-sff.c). >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll flip some of my machines to the icky slow boring piix mode, rather >>>>>> than sexy AHCI mode :) to see if I can reproduce. I have had a feeling >>>>>> that we needed a more sophisticated IRQ handling setup, this may be >>>>>> what >>>>>> was needed. Lost interrupt recovery should occur faster than 30 >>>>>> seconds >>>>>> in any case, and should not require a hard reset if the hardware >>>>>> functions just fine outside of the lost-interrupt / race that just >>>>>> occurred. >>>>> >>>>> Yeap, there is a race condition with clearing which I don't think we >>>>> can solve completely but with some modification I think we can at >>>>> least cover known failure cases. >>>>> >>>>> For longer term, I don't think we can solve this by diddling with the >>>>> SFF registers. The interface is just way too ancient and horrid to >>>>> build anything reliable on top of. I'm planning on implementing >>>>> smarter IRQ storm handling and stepped timeouts for ATA commands. >>>> >>>> A tester on this bug >>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15537 >>>> seemed to find success with the patch. >>> >>> Thanks for the Update! >>> >>> I will wait some more and then test rc-2. >> >> Can you test the patch, please? > > Sure. I done: > > /usr/src/linux> sudo patch -p1 < teo > patching file drivers/ata/libata-sff.c > Hunk #1 FAILED at 1667. > Hunk #2 FAILED at 1700. > Hunk #3 FAILED at 1718. > Hunk #4 FAILED at 1770. > Hunk #5 FAILED at 1792. > Hunk #6 FAILED at 1801. > Hunk #7 FAILED at 1818. > 7 out of 7 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/ata/libata-sff.c.rej > > Is that the expected outcome? Can I ignore the "failed" output? > > Now I guess I still need to do "make", lilo and reboot. Done all of the above, no getting the following right after running dmesg after the reboot: Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo Probing IDE interface ide1... Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ide_generic: please use "probe_mask=0x3f" module parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ide-gd driver 1.18 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ide-cd driver 5.00 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ide-cd: hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.13 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ] Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: setting latency timer to 64 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo scsi0 : ata_piix Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo scsi1 : ata_piix Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xd080 ctl 0xd000 bmdma 0xc800 irq 19 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xcc00 ctl 0xc880 bmdma 0xc808 irq 19 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.21-k5-NAPI Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo e1000 0000:02:06.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ata1.00: ATA-7: INTEL SSDSA2MH160G1GC, 045C8820, max UDMA/133 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/31) Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA INTEL SSDSA2MH16 045C PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte logical blocks: (160 GB/149 GiB) Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo e1000: 0000:02:06.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:13:d3:b4:3c:6c Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 Mar 15 04:22:12 zenogentoo sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk Let me know if I can be of any further help. Linux zenogentoo 2.6.34-rc1 #80 SMP Mon Mar 15 14:22:23 CET 2010 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux If I get another hang I will let you know. Best Zeno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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