On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:52:36PM -0800, Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:08:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >>On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 17:48 -0800, Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> >>>scsi0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message CDB: 0x12 0x0 0x0
> >>>0x0 0xff 0x0 scsi0:0:0:0: Command already completed aic7xxx_abort
> >>>returns 0x2002
> >>
> >>IRQ routing by the look of that trace. Make sure that if you are using
> >>2.4.x you have ACPI disabled and see it looks any better
> >
> >Correct, and I came to the same conclusion ; Chris told us he booted
> >with the "nosmp" option. I've checked his config, and he has
> >CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y. I've just tried the same here, and I confirm that my
> >machine (dual athlon) does not boot with "nosmp" unless I also add
> >"acpi=off". Mine even stops ealier, while scanning IDE devices.
>
> 2.6.14.4 has been running stable for 4 days. For the long term, I'll
> probably migrate the box to 2.6 and leave it there.
>
> >So now we're back to the original problem, i.e. why does he get bad pmd
> >that often on 2.4. It leaves us with the following possible next steps
> >after the problem occurs again (if it still happens with 2.6.14 or if
> >Chris is OK for a few more tests) :
> > - 2.4.32 nosmp acpi=off => the easiest one
> > - 2.4.32 + aic7xxx+20040522 => the more interesting one
>
> I booted 2.4.32 with the aic7xxx patch you pointed me at last week. It's
> been up for a few hours. I'll let it run for at least a week or two and
> will report back positive or negative results. After that, I'll try
> 2.4.32 with nosmp and acpi=off.
Thanks for your continued feedback, Chris. Your reports are very helpful,
they tend to prove that your hardware is OK and that there's a bug in
mainline 2.4.32 with SMP+ACPI+aic7xxx enabled. That's already a good
piece of information.
> -Chris
Regards,
Willy
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