Re: [BUG] kernel 2.6.15.4: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2/16/06, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Charles-Edouard Ruault <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > i was trying to rip a CD when the whole machine started to freeze
> > >  periodicaly, i then looked at the logs and found the following :
> > >
> > >  Feb 12 19:23:39 ruault kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
> > >  Feb 12 19:23:39 ruault kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > >  Feb 12 19:23:39 ruault kernel: hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
> > >  Feb 12 19:23:39 ruault kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > >  Feb 12 19:23:39 ruault kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command
> >
> > No idea what caused that.
> >
> > >  Feb 12 19:23:39 ruault kernel: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
> >
> > The following was merged today.  Hopefully it suppresses this false
> > positive.
> 
> Unfortunately it won't.  Charles' problem is different (and the BUG
> output is different!) - soft lockup got triggered for PIO handling in
> ide-cd driver.  This patch fixes the problem only for generic ATA PIO
> routines (disks and [P]IDENTIFY), ATAPI PIO still needs fixing
> (ide-cd/floppy/tape/scsi drivers).

argh.  We do need to bop that warning on the head - it's consuming people's
time and causing unneeded concern.

> Andrew, there is no "high level" function for ATAPI PIO as
> ide_pio_datablock() for ATA PIO so fixing soft lockup false positives
> would require going through all drivers and adding bunch of
> touch_softlockup_watchdog() or using sledge-hammer approach
> and touching watchdog in ide-iops.c:atapi_[input,output]_bytes().

Send fixup patch, please?

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