RE: MegaCli fails to communicate with Raid-Controller

2018-04-26 Thread Kashyap Desai
> -Original Message- > From: Volker Schwicking [mailto:volker.schwick...@godaddy.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 8:22 PM > To: Kashyap Desai > Cc: Martin K. Petersen; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Sumit Saxena; > Shivasharan > Srikanteshwara > Subject: Re: Mega

Re: MegaCli fails to communicate with Raid-Controller

2018-04-26 Thread Volker Schwicking
On 23. Apr 2018, at 11:03, Volker Schwicking wrote: > > I will add the printk to dma_alloc_coherent() as well to see, which request > actually fails. But i have to be a bit patient since its a production system > and the customers aren’t to happy about reboots. Alright, here are some results.

Re: MegaCli fails to communicate with Raid-Controller

2018-04-23 Thread Volker Schwicking
> On 23. Apr 2018, at 10:28, Kashyap Desai wrote >> >> Just did that on the “Dell R730xd, MegaRAID SAS-3 3108” and get the >> following output when the megacli works fine. >> >> ### >> Apr 23 09:31:37 xh643 kernel: [ 368.319092] GD IOV-len: 2048 Apr 23 >> 09:31:37 >> xh643 kernel: [ 368.31942

RE: MegaCli fails to communicate with Raid-Controller

2018-04-23 Thread Kashyap Desai
> > Interesting. What is considered old and new? I have a third machine "Dell > R515, MegaRAID SAS 2108”, is that considered new? Its running the same > Xen/Kernel/Megacli-versions as the other two, but the error does not > occur. Nope this is also old controller. When I say new controller, It is

Re: MegaCli fails to communicate with Raid-Controller

2018-04-23 Thread Volker Schwicking
On 19. Apr 2018, at 08:33, Kashyap Desai wrote: > > I think you may see issue with 4.6 kernel as well. This is run time memory > allocation failure. Older controller used 32 bit consistence DMA mask, so > possibility of memory allocation failure is high compare to 64 bit > consistence DMA mask. N

RE: MegaCli fails to communicate with Raid-Controller

2018-04-18 Thread Kashyap Desai
> -Original Message- > From: Martin K. Petersen [mailto:martin.peter...@oracle.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 10:43 PM > To: volker.schwick...@godaddy.com > Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Kashyap Desai; Sumit Saxena > Subject: Re: MegaCli fails to communicate wi

Re: MegaCli fails to communicate with Raid-Controller

2018-04-18 Thread Martin K. Petersen
Volker, > after our latest kernel-update from 4.6. to 4.14.14 we are having > trouble getting data out of our LSI-raid-controllers using the > megacli-binary. > > For every execution of the megacli-binary a line shows up in the kern.log > > ### > [547216.425556] megaraid_sas :03:00.0: Failed

MegaCli fails to communicate with Raid-Controller

2018-04-18 Thread volker.schwick...@godaddy.com
Hi all, after our latest kernel-update from 4.6. to 4.14.14 we are having trouble getting data out of our LSI-raid-controllers using the megacli-binary. For every execution of the megacli-binary a line shows up in the kern.log ### [547216.425556] megaraid_sas :03:00.0: Failed to alloc kerne