Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

[Mikael Pettersson]

Gene Heskett writes:
 > On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
 > >On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > >> 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead.
 > >
 > >What, and keep all us other interested people in the dark?
 > 
 > As a test, I tried rebooting to the latest fedora kernel and found it kills X, 
 > so I'm back to the second to last fedora version ATM, and the 
 > third 'smartctl -t lng /dev/sda' in 24 hours is running now.  The first two 
 > completed with no errors.
 > 
 > I've added the linux-ide list to refresh those people of the problem, 
 > the logs are being spammed by this message stanza:
 > 
 >  Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.290016] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
 > Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.290028] ata1.00: cmd 35/00:58:c9:9c:0a/00:01:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 176128 out
 > Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.290029]          res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
 > Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.290032] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
 > Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.290060] ata1: soft resetting link
 > Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.452301] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
 > Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.452318] ata1: EH complete
 > Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.455898] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 390721968 512-byte hardware sectors (200050 MB)
 > Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.456151] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
 > Jan 28 04:46:25 coyote kernel: [26550.456403] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't 
 > support DPO or FUA

It's not obvious from this incomplete dmesg log what HW or driver
is behind ata1, but if the 2.6.24-rc7 kernel matches the 2.6.24 one,
it should be pata_amd driving a WDC disk:

 > [   30.702887] pata_amd 0000:00:09.0: version 0.3.10
 > [   30.703052] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:09.0 to 64
 > [   30.703188] scsi0 : pata_amd
 > [   30.709313] scsi1 : pata_amd
 > [   30.710076] ata1: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf000 irq 14
 > [   30.710079] ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf008 irq 15
 > [   30.864753] ata1.00: ATA-6: WDC WD2000JB-00EVA0, 15.05R15, max UDMA/100
 > [   30.864756] ata1.00: 390721968 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
 > [   30.871629] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100

Unfortunately we also see:

 > [   48.285456] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
 > [   48.549725] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 20
 > [   48.550149] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  169.07  Thu Dec 13 18:42:56 PST 2007

We have no way of debugging that module, so please try 2.6.24 without it.
If the problems persist, please try to capture a complete log from the
failing kernel -- the interesting bits are everything from initial boot
up to and including the first few errors. You may need to increase the
kernel's log buffer size if the log gets truncated (CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT).

There are no pata_amd changes from 2.6.24-rc7 to 2.6.24 final.
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