Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Kay Sievers wrote: > Is the udev daemon (still) running while it fails? Yes, and there's something else I forgot to mention that may be significant... For the bad case, in addition to udevd, "ps -ef" shows a "sh -e /lib/udev/net.agent" running with a PPID of 1. This process doesn't exit until I

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Kay Sievers wrote: > Is the udev daemon (still) running while it fails? Yes. > If you run /sbin/udevtrigger, do the nodes appear? No. Exit status is 0, and there are no errors. Everything looks fine under /sys/block, and there doesn't seem to be a problem with /proc/devices either. -- --

Re: Recent sym53c8xx patches

2007-12-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 09:51 -0500, Tony Battersby wrote: > Hello, > > I am sending this message to check up on the merge status of my recent > sym53c8xx patches to make sure they aren't forgotten. Matthew Wilcox, > could you give an ack/nak for these merge requests? Also, please let me > know i

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and excessive block IO errors

2007-12-07 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:05:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:44:45 + > Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am not sure if this problem has been addressed already. I read some > > about the fast-fail issues and this may be related? > > > > On nearly all my U

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and excessive block IO errors

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:44:45 + Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure if this problem has been addressed already. I read some > about the fast-fail issues and this may be related? > > On nearly all my USB block devices, I have been getting zillions of I/O > errors. But they are

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] 3w-xxxx: Fix bad unaligned accesses on alpha SMP

2007-12-07 Thread adam radford
On Dec 6, 2007 6:07 PM, Gabriele Gorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > disable packing of the TAG_TW_Device_Extension > structure to prevent kernel unaligned accesses when > accessing the spinlock inside the ioctl_wqueue structure. > Fixes smartmontools kernel panic on alpha SMP > > Signed-off-by: Gab

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Kay Sievers wrote: > Yeah, that looks all fine. > > What distro is that, and what's the udev version? Mine is Debian Etch, normally with the latest released or -rcX kernel from kernel.org. Updates current as of about 18 hours ago. Udev package version is 0.105-4. The RELEASE-NOTES file in /usr

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: make pcmcia directory use obj-y|m instead of subdir-y|m

2007-12-07 Thread Tejun Heo
Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:36:23PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >> subdir-y|m isn't supposed to contain modules or built-in components. >> Change subdir-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA) to obj-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA). >> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: scsi_wait_scan Kconfig option

2007-12-07 Thread Nick Warne
Hi Matthew, On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:47:56 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:39:53PM +, Nick Warne wrote: > > I try not to build a modular kernel, but only have modules ON due to > > nVidia (sigh). So I was semi-surprised when I saw the > > scsi_wait_s

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Kay Sievers
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 09:43 +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Bob Tracy wrote: > > That was quick :-). Backing out the sysctl_check.c diff gives me a > > working kernel. Beats the [EMAIL PROTECTED] out of me how/why, though. > > > > Michael Cree: could you try backing out the diff below from your > >

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Cree
Bob Tracy wrote: That was quick :-). Backing out the sysctl_check.c diff gives me a working kernel. Beats the [EMAIL PROTECTED] out of me how/why, though. Michael Cree: could you try backing out the diff below from your 2.6.24-rc3 tree and see if things are now working for you? Yes (conferen

Re: Fw: scsi_wait_scan Kconfig option

2007-12-07 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:39:53PM +, Nick Warne wrote: > I try not to build a modular kernel, but only have modules ON due to > nVidia (sigh). So I was semi-surprised when I saw the scsi_wait_scan > module being built again, yet NO WHERE in menuconfig is it present to > turn OFF. Even if I h

Fw: scsi_wait_scan Kconfig option

2007-12-07 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Please see below. Nick Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:12:42 + From: Nick Warne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: scsi_wait_scan Kconfig option Hi all, I am bringing this up again - primarily as I forgot about it after patching my build tree a

Re: BUG 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 -- Boot still hangs w/ async scsi scan

2007-12-07 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 10:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:14:22 -0500 Lee Schermerhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 13:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:36:39 -0500 > > > Lee Schermerhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 19:06 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i'm not sure how to do direct debugging on udev, so i can only guess > > about what effect on the kernel side could have caused this. One bad > > hack would be to "probe" udevd's behavior by changing the NET_TR entry

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Kay Sievers
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 19:06 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Bob Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > * Bob Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Current state of the source tree is the 6f37ac... version, so I'll > > > > > start backing out the above dif

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Bob Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Bob Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Current state of the source tree is the 6f37ac... version, so I'll > > > > start backing out the above diffs in related groups and continue > > > > until I've got a working k

RE: [OpenFCoE PATCH] [PATCH] Performance improvement, combine received data copy with CRC.

2007-12-07 Thread Love, Robert W
>Rob Love wrote: >> Joe Eykholt wrote: >>> [PATCH] Performance improvement, combine received data copy with CRC. >>> >> Shouldn't we remove openfc_cp_to_user() if we're moving that >> functionality into openfc_scsi_recv_data()? > >Yes. That was an oversight. I did intend to remove it. >Do you wa

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Bob Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Current state of the source tree is the 6f37ac... version, so I'll > > > start backing out the above diffs in related groups and continue > > > until I've got a working kernel. For lack of an obvious target, > > > I'll star

Re: [PATCH] SCSI: make pcmcia directory use obj-y|m instead of subdir-y|m

2007-12-07 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:36:23PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > subdir-y|m isn't supposed to contain modules or built-in components. > Change subdir-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA) to obj-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA). > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: James Bottomley

Re: [patch] SCSI: early detection of medium not present, updated

2007-12-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > > For one thing, you've using retries to control both an outer loop and > > an inner loop -- meaning the total number of attempts could be on the > > order of retries**2. > > Sort of; however, there should only really be one cc/ua before the TUR > go

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Bob Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Current state of the source tree is the 6f37ac... version, so I'll > > start backing out the above diffs in related groups and continue > > until I've got a working kernel. For lack of an obvious target, > > I'll start with the seemingly innocuous ch

[PATCH -mm 4/6] x86: convert calgary IOMMU to use the IOMMU helper

2007-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
This patch converts calgary IOMMU to use the IOMMU helper functions. The IOMMU doesn't allocate a memory area spanning LLD's segment boundary anymore. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/Kconfig |3 +++ arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c | 34 ++

[PATCH -mm 6/6] kill __clear_bit_string and find_next_zero_string

2007-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
This kills unused __clear_bit_string and find_next_zero_string (they were used by only gart and calgary IOMMUs). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/lib/Makefile_64|2 +- arch/x86/lib/bitstr_64.c| 28 include/asm-x86/bitops_64

[PATCH -mm 1/6] add IOMMU helper functions for the free area management

2007-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
This adds IOMMU helper functions for the free area management. These functions take care of LLD's segment boundary limit for IOMMUs. They would be useful for IOMMUs that use bitmap for the free area management. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/iommu-helper.h |

[PATCH -mm 5/6] x86: convert gart IOMMU to use the IOMMU helper

2007-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
This patch converts gart IOMMU to use the IOMMU helper functions. The IOMMU doesn't allocate a memory area spanning LLD's segment boundary anymore. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/Kconfig |2 +- arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c | 41

[PATCH -mm 0/6] fix iommu segment boundary problems (powerpc and x86)

2007-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
This patchset is a sequel to my patchset to fix iommu segment boundary problems: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org/msg11919.html This adds new IOMMU helper functions for the free area management. These functions take care of LLD's segment boundary limit for IOMMUs. They are u

[PATCH -mm 2/6] powerpc: convert iommu to use the IOMMU helper

2007-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
This patch converts PPC's IOMMU to use the IOMMU helper functions. The IOMMU doesn't allocate a memory area spanning LLD's segment boundary anymore. iseries_hv_alloc and iseries_hv_map don't have proper device struct. 4GB boundary is used for them. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH -mm 3/6] powerpc: remove DMA 4GB boundary protection

2007-12-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
Previously, during initialization of the IOMMU tables, the last entry at each 4GB boundary is marked as used since there are many adapters which cannot handle DMAing across any 4GB boundary. The IOMMU doesn't allocate a memory area spanning LLD's segment boundary anymore. The segment boundary of d

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
I wrote: > "git diff 2f1f53bdc6531696934f6ee7bbdfa2ab4f4f62a3 > 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba" > produced a relatively short patch (18,437 bytes). The list of involved > files: > > (omitted) > > Current state of the source tree is the 6f37ac... version, so I'll start > backing out the

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Tracy
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:07:08 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > commit 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba > > > Merge: 2f1f53b... d90bf5a... > > > Author: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Wed Nov 14 18:51:48 20

[PATCH] SCSI: make pcmcia directory use obj-y|m instead of subdir-y|m

2007-12-07 Thread Tejun Heo
subdir-y|m isn't supposed to contain modules or built-in components. Change subdir-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA) to obj-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/Makefile |2 +- 1 file change

Re: everything in wait_for_completion, what is my system doing?

2007-12-07 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Andrew, thanks for your help! On Friday 07 December 2007 02:09:11 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:44:54 +0100 > > Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > after scsi-recovery a system here went into some kind lock-up, everything > > seems to be in wait_for_completion(). Pl

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Bob Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm struggling to see how any of those could have broken block > > device mounting on alpha. Are you sure you bisected right? > > Based on what's in that commit, it *does* appear something went wrong > with bisection. If the implicated commit is the

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > then the test of whether I bisected correctly is as simple as > > applying the commit and seeing if things break, because I'm running > > on the kernel corresponding to > > 2f1f53bdc6531696934f6ee7bbdfa2ab4f4f62a3 right now. Let me give > > that

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:07:08 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > commit 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba > > Merge: 2f1f53b... d90bf5a... > > Author: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed Nov 14 18:51:48 2007 -0800 > > > > Merge bran

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # bad: [6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba] Merge branch 'master' of > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 > > git-bisect bad 6f37ac793d6ba7b35d338f791974166f67fdd9ba > > # good: [2f1f53bdc6531696934f6ee7bbdfa2ab4f4f62a