Re: mpt fusion broken sometime since 2.6.24

[david]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >
> > > david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Subject: Re: mpt fusion broken sometime since 2.6.24
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM,  <david@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:44:55PM -0800, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > I got a picture of the failed boot at
> > > > > > > > > > http://linux.lang.hm/linux/IMG00052.jpg
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > The PCI-MSI line is probably indicative.  Can you try booting with:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > mptbase.mpt_msi_enable_sas=0
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > and also send us an lspci -v so we can update the blacklist?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > is that disabling SAS for this system? if so, that's the wrong thing
> > > > > > > > to do
> > > > > > > > (the drives are SAS)
> > > > > > > it only disable MSI with that mptsas.
> > > > > > > and mptsas will use ioapic routing.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > can you post whole bootlog?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > unfortunantly it's booting from CD and the only drives in the
> > > > > > system are
> > > > > > the ones that are not being accessed.
> > > > >
> > > > > i mean with kernel before 2.6.24..
> > > >
> > > > Ok, attached.
> > >
> > > so your lsi 1068 is under 8132... need to double check if that chip
> > > really support MSI.
<SNIP>

I don't understand the section I snipped from the message above

> do you have chance to try current tip/master
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/readme.txt
> or 2.6.29-rcX
> plus following patch?

I will see about trying this.

> or can you check if there is update fw for your LSI card?

this is more work, I'll look into that as well.

David Lang

> [PATCH] mpt: fix enable lsi sas to use msi as default
>
> Impact: fix bug
>
> the third param in module_param(,,) is perm instead of default value.
> we still need to assign default at first.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c |    4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
> @@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ module_param(mpt_msi_enable_fc, int, 0);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(mpt_msi_enable_fc, " Enable MSI Support for FC \
> 		controllers (default=0)");
>
> -static int mpt_msi_enable_sas;
> -module_param(mpt_msi_enable_sas, int, 1);
> +static int mpt_msi_enable_sas = 1;
> +module_param(mpt_msi_enable_sas, int, 0);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(mpt_msi_enable_sas, " Enable MSI Support for SAS \
> 		controllers (default=1)");
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