Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Nov 30 2007 - 02:03:17 EST


On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:00:47 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:39:29 -0500 Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:35:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > ten million is close enough to infinity for me to assume that we broke the
> > > driver and that's never going to terminate.
> > >
> >
> > how about this? doesn't break things on my pa8800:
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> > index 463f119..ef01cb1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> > @@ -1037,10 +1037,13 @@ restart_test:
> > /*
> > * Wait 'til done (with timeout)
> > */
> > - for (i=0; i<SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT; i++)
> > + do {
> > if (INB(np, nc_istat) & (INTF|SIP|DIP))
> > break;
> > - if (i>=SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
> > + msleep(10);
> > + } while (i++ < SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT);
> > +
> > + if (i >= SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
> > printf ("CACHE TEST FAILED: timeout.\n");
> > return (0x20);
> > }
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
> > index ad07880..85c483b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
> > @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
> > /*
> > * Misc.
> > */
> > -#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (10000000)
> > +#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (1000)
> > #define BUS_8_BIT 0
> > #define BUS_16_BIT 1
> >
>
> That might be the fix, but do we know what we're actually fixing? afaik
> 2.6.24-rc3 doesn't get this timeout, 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 does get it and we
> don't know why?
>

<looks at Subject:>

<Checks that Rafael was cc'ed>

So 2.6.24-rc3 was OK and 2.6.24-rc3-git2 is not?
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