Re: [PATCH] SATA NCQ #4

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09 2005, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 09 2005, Grant Coady wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:45:26 +0200, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Any chance you can log the boot process when it fails, using serial
> > > > console or something similar? At least write down the EIP of where it
> > > > fails :-)
> > >
> > > Guess what?  I switched box on this morning with monitor off and 
> > > the boot completed, 'cos I'd logged in much time later ssh.  Didn't 
> > > give it enough time yesterday :(
> > >
> > > I have one very large syslog... 139MB
> > >
> > > How much of that would you like :)
> > >
> > > Jun  9 04:27:45 sempro kernel:  [<c0100ad3>] default_idle+0x23/0x30
> > > Jun  9 04:27:45 sempro kernel:  [<c0100b58>] cpu_idle+0x48/0x60
> > > Jun  9 04:27:45 sempro kernel:  [<c04867b8>] start_kernel+0x148/0x170
> > > Jun  9 04:27:45 sempro kernel:  [<c04863a0>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1b0
> > > Jun  9 04:27:45 sempro kernel: Badness in __ata_qc_complete at drivers/scsi/libata-core.c:3062
> >
> > Ah duh, I never tested on UP, you have to use assert_spin_locked() there
> > not the direct spin_is_locked().
> >
> > So your system was functioning just fine, you just got a warning for
> > every completed request slowing it down a lot :)
> >
> > This should fix it. Jeff, can you apply that incremental to the ncq
> > branch? Thanks!
> >
> > --- linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c~	2005-06-09 08:20:34.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c	2005-06-09 08:22:24.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -3059,7 +3059,7 @@
> > 	struct ata_port *ap = qc->ap;
> > 	unsigned int tag, do_clear = 0;
> >
> > -	WARN_ON(!spin_is_locked(&ap->host_set->lock));
> > +	WARN_ON(!assert_spin_locked(&ap->host_set->lock));
> >
> > 	if (likely(qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_ACTIVE)) {
> > 		assert(ap->queue_depth);
>
>
> Or just kill the check completely, it has served its purpose.

The solution that included the patch won the battle ;-)

I'll be pushing your incremental update out to kernel.org in a sec.

	Jeff



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