Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2_check_page: bad entry indirectory) (fwd)

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:03:19 +0100
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxx> wrote:

>   Adding relevant people and lists to CC...
> 
> 									Honza
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Anders Henke <anders.henke@xxxxxxxx> -----
> 
> Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:31:50 +0100
> From: Anders Henke <anders.henke@xxxxxxxx>
> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory)
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
> 
> On November 28 2007, Anders Henke wrote:
> > As "everything is reported as being zero" is quite odd an Jan took a
> > guess that it might be block-layer or driver-related, I've assumed
> > that the driver is responsible for this; just out of the curiousity, 
> > I've manually replaced the dpt_i2o driver by the 2.6.19 one by copying 
> > driver/scsi/dpt_i2o.c driver/scsi/dpti.h and driver/scsi/dpt/ into a 
> > vanilla 2.6.23.1. kernel; using this kernel fixed the issue for me.
> > 
> > I haven't yet fine-tested from which kernel release on the dpt_i2o driver 
> > behaves like this and spews out zeroed blocks when trying to mount
> > the rootfs. Maybe this is just some timing issue.
> 
> I've started the fine-tests and can say so far that dpt_i2o from 
> 2.6.22 is still fine. Test is simple:
> 
> anders@ista:/usr/src/linux-2.6.22/drivers/scsi/dpt$ cp -r dpt/ dpt_i2o.c dpti.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/scsi/
> 
> ... recompile the kernel, reboot: works.
> 
> 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 differ in terms of the dpt_i2o driver by two different
> patch sets:
> -one 2 Kb small set of patches from 2.6.22 to 2.6.22-rc1
> -one 7 Kb set of patches from 2.6.23-rc2 to 2.6.23-rc3
> -one 162 Kb set of patches from 2.6.23-rc9 to 2.6.23-rc10.
> 
> When applying the 2.6.23-rc1-based driver to "my" 2.6.31.1 kernel,
> the "zero blocks"-symptom show up, so it's the "lucky" situation
> that the smallest patch actually seams to be the broken one.
> 
> According to the 2.6.23-rc1 short-form changelog, there is
> one major edit on the dpt_i2o driver:
> 
> FUJITA Tomonori 
> 
>       [SCSI] dpt_i2o: convert to use the data buffer accessors
> 
> Stephen Rothwell 
>       dpt_i2o depends on virt_to_bus
> 
> Fujita, would you please take a look at this?

Sorry about the bug. Can you try this?


diff --git a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
index 8258506..1255b26 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
@@ -3295,7 +3295,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template adpt_template = {
 	.this_id		= 7,
 	.cmd_per_lun		= 1,
 	.use_clustering		= ENABLE_CLUSTERING,
-	.use_sg_chaining	= ENABLE_SG_CHAINING,
+	.use_sg_chaining	= DISABLE_SG_CHAINING,
 };
 
 static s32 adpt_scsi_register(adpt_hba* pHba)
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