Re: SCSI deadlock

MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:52:44 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Ron McCormick wrote:

> I saw the same type of problems as well with all of the current kernels,
> with my AHA-2940 (also aic7xxx) until I used the 5.0.7 driver that was
> floating around here. This fixed the problems with the 2940 that was
> causing deadlocks while doing a find on my SCSI drives.

> > It seems that I have still SCSI-Lockups. I can force lockups by reading
> > some 50MB from by /dev/sda1. [...]

if the lockups are still there even with the new driver, then could you
give the NMI-watchdog a try? Try the 2.1.90-B version,i've posted it to
linux-kernel recently. (i'm not attaching it, it's big). To debug the
lockup you should do this:

- apply the patch
- configure NMI watchdog to yes in Char Dev/Watchdogs
- reboot into the new kernel
- wait for a lockup, a 'double oops' will be generated, one oops
per CPU. Write the 'Call Trace' lines down and send them through
ksymoops. (register content doesnt matter)

[the NMI watchdog checks other spinlock-related semantics too, so it might
be that you get an oops much earlier.]

-- mingo

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