On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:38:38 +0100
Wolfgang Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 17:00, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:03:45 +0100
> >
> > Wolfgang Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Bisect done:
> > > >
> > > > 4d52b48b43d0d1d5959fa722ee0046e3542e5e1b is first bad commit
> > > > [PATCH] sky2: support msi interrupt (revised)
> > > >
> > > > Reverting this commit in git head seems to work, at least the driver
> > > > builds and loads. Is that sane?
> > > >
> > > Ok, no hangs yet.
> > >
> > > Looking at the reverted commit, I wonder if modprobing sky2 with
> > > disable_msi=1 is equivalent to reverting the commit?
> >
> > Could you try the current code with the disable_msi option?
> > modprobe sky2 disable_msi=1
> >
> > That will run existing code without MSI.
>
> 2.6.16-rc5 with disable_msi=1 works for me, no hangs seen so far. I rsynced 80
> GB of data, thats about 5-10 times more than I typically need to reproduce a
> hang, so it seems to be solid. For the record: 2.6.16-rc5 with disable_msi=0
> does hang.
>
> I have not seen the memory trashing others reported, with no version I tested
> so far. Maybe my scenario is not likely to trigger this, so I can't tell.
>
> Unless a fix for msi is at hand, may I suggest for 2.6.16 to revert the msi
> commit or switch the default to disable_msi=1?
>
> I've updated bugzilla #6084 accordingly.
Okay, then what I need is lspci -v of all systems that have the problem, I'll make
a blacklist (or update PCI quirks). I suspect that MSI doesn't work for any devices
on these systems, or MSI changes the timing enough to expose existing races.
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