Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-23 Thread Adam Talbot
Oh! Glad to see it was not just me suffering from this bug. Still running a patched 4.0.0 kernel through the SAS expander. Everything seems happy. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Ceriel Jacobs wrote: > Your mvsas port expander bug might be related to bug# 81861 > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org

Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-23 Thread Ceriel Jacobs
Your mvsas port expander bug might be related to bug# 81861 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81861 Adam Talbot schreef op 13-04-15 om 17:11: To make a very long debugging story short, I think there is an issues/bug with the mvsas driver. It works, with older kernels, and breaks on ne

Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-16 Thread Adam Talbot
Tested against main RAID6, 7 disk array, with sas extender and work with out error. Tested against 2X mirror of SSD's, direct attached, and worked with out error. Check was a simple RAID check. "echo check > /sys/block/md126/md/sync_action" Patched against: root@nas:~# uname -a Linux nas 4.0.0 #

Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-16 Thread Adam Talbot
Oh! Good idea. ;-) I will test it in 6~8 hours, once the raid check finishes. On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:28 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 10:26 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: >> Wow, I forgot how long it takes to compile a full kernel. Glad I ran >> Gentoo for a few years and kne

Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-16 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 10:26 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: > Wow, I forgot how long it takes to compile a full kernel. Glad I ran > Gentoo for a few years and knew how to compile and apply patches. I > will admit I had to dust off some mental cobwebs. > > Pre-patched 4.0.0 kernel tree: Oops, as expect

Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-16 Thread Adam Talbot
Wow, I forgot how long it takes to compile a full kernel. Glad I ran Gentoo for a few years and knew how to compile and apply patches. I will admit I had to dust off some mental cobwebs. Pre-patched 4.0.0 kernel tree: Oops, as expected Patched 4.0.0 kernel tree: IT WORKED! Basic mount, and c

Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-15 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 14:41 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: > Removing the sas expander and attaching the SATA drives directly works > just fine. I had to limp along with the drives direct attached for a > while, while debugging. Well, that narrows it down. It looks like there's a longstanding bug in m

Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-14 Thread Laurence Oberman
Any chance you can capture a vmcore (kernel only pages), I will provide an upload location. Thanks Laurence On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:16 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 14:03 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: >> To make a very long debugging story short, I think there is an issues/bug

Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-14 Thread Adam Talbot
Removing the sas expander and attaching the SATA drives directly works just fine. I had to limp along with the drives direct attached for a while, while debugging. Here is the dump from: Linux version 3.15.1-031501-generic. Just tested it. [8.455203] scsi4 : mvsas [8.663885] floppy0: no f

Re: mvsas panics and dies when attached to a port extender on newer kernels

2015-04-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 14:03 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: > To make a very long debugging story short, I think there is an issues/bug > with the mvsas driver. It works, with older kernels, and breaks on > newer kernels. > > My Debian Jessie system was running great on a 3.18 kernel. Changed > cases t