Re: [2.5.69-mm8] ide_dmaq_intr: stat=40, not expected

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 17:43:51 EST


Hello,

Can you compile without IDE TCQ and tell whats the difference?

Regards,

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Bartlomiej

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Julien Oster wrote:

> Hello, > > I already mentioned it in another thread, but here again, more > complete. > > Booting my workstation with 2.5.69-mm8 works, but I get the following > message many times per second: > > May 22 23:34:01 frodo kernel: ide_dmaq_intr: stat=42, not expected > May 22 23:34:01 frodo kernel: ide_dmaq_intr: stat=40, not expected > May 22 23:34:01 frodo last message repeated 34 times > > It's mostly stat=40, sometimes stat=42. Look at the time: it's really > very often. (more often than 34 times, there are other normal messages > in between) > > The harddisks are attached on a Promise PDC20276 onboard RAID > controller, but it's only used as an IDE controller. However, I have > Linux RAID Partitions on the disks (all mounted filesystems are). Most > are RAID 1, one is RAID 0, but the latter isn't accessed very often. > > Even more interesting: after a while, at least /var/log/kern.log > (where the kernel messages are logged to) gets jammed. Here's > something pasted right away from "less /var/log/kern.log": > > May 22 23:34:32 frodo kernel: ide_dmaq_intr: stat=40, not expected > ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ > ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ > [...] > <A0><81><CA>^Y^A<9A>|!#n:<C8><F6><F5>^E<AF><EE><B5>@^D<A5>]^L<90><C0><98>=f<F3>A > `<C7>^Y^F<A0>%H;4<9A>^L<E9><FA><BE><AD><DD><AA>~<B5>^U<FB>[^GB<83><AC>^@w<B5>eMa > y 22 23:41:23 frodo kernel: klogd 1.4.1#11, log source = /proc/kmsg started. > > I cutted it down to a few lines, however the binary garbage is quite a > lot. Obviously, something got jammed for good, because as you can see, > the next readable line is from the (fine running) 2.4.21-rc2 kernel, > which I booted immediately afterwards. > > Note however, that I didn't do a clean shutdown, since I forgot to > include my input devices into the kernel (ouch). I just pressed > reset. The fsck done by the working 2.4.21-rc2 kernel afterwards also > ate up a configuration file from tomcat (unused inode, cleaned). > > All mirrored arrays were reconstructing right after booting > 2.5.69-mm8, since they weren't clean before. I pressed reset before > the reconstruction got finished (I had no input device and the > ide_dmaq_intr-message actually scared me). > > So, taking the unclean shutdown and the reconstructing RAID into > account, the jammed files may not be a cause of the strange message > the kernel gives me. > > I included my .config and an "lspci -v" output with this mail. Please > note that the latter one was created with my currently running > 2.4.21-rc2 kernel, but that shouldn't matter I believe. > > Regards, > Julien

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