[PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-12 Thread Timothy Pearson
warning if no memory I/O resources are found. Signed-off-by: Timothy Pearson Tested-by: Timothy Pearson --- drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c |9 + 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c index

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-16 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/12/2015 05:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can happen if the device is too slow to respond during POST and is missed by the BIOS, but Linux then detects the device later in the boot process

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-16 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/16/2015 12:42 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:28 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/12/2015 05:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can happen if the device is too slow to respond during

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-21 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/16/2015 01:49 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:42 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:28 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/12/2015 05:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread Timothy Pearson
:24 AM, Joe Lawrence wrote: On 06/21/2015 02:46 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/16/2015 01:49 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:42 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:28 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/12/2015 05:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: The mpt2sas driver crashes if the

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/23/2015 12:45 PM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:33 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/23/2015 08:35 AM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: Hi, Upstream contributor should not add copyright to this driver code. I can&#

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/23/2015 12:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:47 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/23/2015 12:45 PM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:33 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/23/2015 08:35 AM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530

[PATCH v2] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources detected

2015-06-23 Thread Timothy Pearson
The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can happen if the device is too slow to respond during POST and is missed by the BIOS, but Linux then detects the device later in the boot process. Signed-off-by: Timothy Pearson Tested-by

[PATCH] mpt3sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources detected

2015-06-23 Thread Timothy Pearson
The mpt3sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can happen if the device is too slow to respond during POST and is missed by the BIOS, but Linux then detects the device later in the boot process. Signed-off-by: Timothy Pearson --- drivers

Re: [PATCH v2] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources detected

2015-06-27 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/23/2015 02:28 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can happen if the device is too slow to respond during POST and is missed by the BIOS, but Linux then detects the device later in the boot process

Re: [PATCH v3] [SCSI] mpt2sas, mpt3sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources detected

2015-07-15 Thread Timothy Pearson
nto panic state. > >> >> Thanks >> >> Yinghai On some systems Linux is unable / unwilling to assign a BAR if the BIOS does not assign one at startup. I didn't look into the Linux allocator side of things in much detail, but it is quite possible that Linux is unawa

Re: [PATCH v3] [SCSI] mpt2sas, mpt3sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources detected

2015-07-15 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 07/15/2015 01:28 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Timothy Pearson > wrote: >>> I have just kept the same description provide by Timothy in his >>> initial patch. >>> >>> But I observe that their may be chance of getting