Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-26 Thread Anders Eriksson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Could you try bisecting it down to the guilty commit using git-bisect? > > [ the "old" stuff got few hundred commits in 2.6.25 ] > > Thanks, Bart Ok, I got this: 852738f39258deafb3d89c187cb1a4050820d555 is first bad commit commit

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-26 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Could you try bisecting it down to the guilty commit using git-bisect? [ the old stuff got few hundred commits in 2.6.25 ] Thanks, Bart Ok, I got this: 852738f39258deafb3d89c187cb1a4050820d555 is first bad commit commit 852738f39258deafb3d89c187cb1a4050820d555

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-24 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Could you try bisecting it down to the guilty commit using git-bisect? > [ the "old" stuff got few hundred commits in 2.6.25 ] > Thanks, Bart Will do. It'll take a while though. Not a fast machine and used by the household... /A -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-24 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Could you try bisecting it down to the guilty commit using git-bisect? [ the old stuff got few hundred commits in 2.6.25 ] Thanks, Bart Will do. It'll take a while though. Not a fast machine and used by the household... /A -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-23 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > So that's using the old IDE drivers. > And the network and USB are sharing IRQ#11 with each > other. > > If you are going to be using newer kernels like this > (2.6.23+), > then you might consider shifting those drives over to > libata drivers. Yes, that will probably fix it for him,

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-23 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Saturday 23 February 2008, Anders Eriksson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> But at this point libata is working much better than the old IDE stuff, and > >> it really is worth moving things over if you can. > > > > Ok, I'll take a stab at that tomorrow. Two things... > > Having

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-23 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> But at this point libata is working much better than the old IDE stuff, and >> it really is worth moving things over if you can. > > Ok, I'll take a stab at that tomorrow. Two things... Having switched to ata_piix i can confirm that smartd doesn't hand the system

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-23 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > the comment on the very top of drivers/ata says: > tristate "Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers" That's the one I was referring to. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-23 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But at this point libata is working much better than the old IDE stuff, and it really is worth moving things over if you can. Ok, I'll take a stab at that tomorrow. Two things... Having switched to ata_piix i can confirm that smartd doesn't hand the system anymore.

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-23 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: the comment on the very top of drivers/ata says: tristate Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers That's the one I was referring to. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-23 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Saturday 23 February 2008, Anders Eriksson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But at this point libata is working much better than the old IDE stuff, and it really is worth moving things over if you can. Ok, I'll take a stab at that tomorrow. Two things... Having switched to

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-23 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! So that's using the old IDE drivers. And the network and USB are sharing IRQ#11 with each other. If you are going to be using newer kernels like this (2.6.23+), then you might consider shifting those drives over to libata drivers. Yes, that will probably fix it for him, but

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Jeff Garzik wrote: >> If this is the prefered driver these days, maybe it shouldn't be marked >> experimental in the menu anymore? > > It's not marked experimental. > the comment on the very top of drivers/ata says: tristate "Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers" this is

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Anders Eriksson wrote: Is smartd prepared to handle /dev/sdX style devices? Yes. You need to pass "-d ata" to smartd and smartctl, if your scripts are not already doing so. If this is the prefered driver these days, maybe it shouldn't be marked experimental in the menu anymore? It's

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > So that's using the old IDE drivers. And the network and USB are sharing > IRQ#11 with each other. > If you are going to be using newer kernels like this (2.6.23+), then you > might consider shifting those drives over to libata drivers. > This involves a little bit of

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Mark Lord
Anders Eriksson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The sysrq-e output is probably just standard ext3 journalling unrelated to the problem... what does dmesg say? lspci? What's your hardware setup? dmesg ; smartd ; dmesg yields no new entries in dmesg. It seems on disk accesses are dead.

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The sysrq-e output is probably just standard ext3 journalling unrelated to > the problem... what does dmesg say? lspci? What's your hardware setup? dmesg ; smartd ; dmesg yields no new entries in dmesg. It seems on disk accesses are dead. it still routes packets

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Anders Eriksson wrote: Hi, Trying out 2.6.25-rc2 smartd always causes my box to hang. I can switch vt:s and the keyboard seems to work. Using sysrq-e I noticed a callpath open -> ext3 -> journals -> sync_buffer -> io_scheduel -> generic_unplig_device. I'd guess the open stems from smartd.

2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Anders Eriksson
Hi, Trying out 2.6.25-rc2 smartd always causes my box to hang. I can switch vt:s and the keyboard seems to work. Using sysrq-e I noticed a callpath open -> ext3 -> journals -> sync_buffer -> io_scheduel -> generic_unplig_device. I'd guess the open stems from smartd. Removing smartd from the

2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Anders Eriksson
Hi, Trying out 2.6.25-rc2 smartd always causes my box to hang. I can switch vt:s and the keyboard seems to work. Using sysrq-e I noticed a callpath open - ext3 - journals - sync_buffer - io_scheduel - generic_unplig_device. I'd guess the open stems from smartd. Removing smartd from the

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Anders Eriksson wrote: Hi, Trying out 2.6.25-rc2 smartd always causes my box to hang. I can switch vt:s and the keyboard seems to work. Using sysrq-e I noticed a callpath open - ext3 - journals - sync_buffer - io_scheduel - generic_unplig_device. I'd guess the open stems from smartd.

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The sysrq-e output is probably just standard ext3 journalling unrelated to the problem... what does dmesg say? lspci? What's your hardware setup? dmesg ; smartd ; dmesg yields no new entries in dmesg. It seems on disk accesses are dead. it still routes packets

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Mark Lord
Anders Eriksson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The sysrq-e output is probably just standard ext3 journalling unrelated to the problem... what does dmesg say? lspci? What's your hardware setup? dmesg ; smartd ; dmesg yields no new entries in dmesg. It seems on disk accesses are dead.

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Anders Eriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So that's using the old IDE drivers. And the network and USB are sharing IRQ#11 with each other. If you are going to be using newer kernels like this (2.6.23+), then you might consider shifting those drives over to libata drivers. This involves a little bit of work

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Anders Eriksson wrote: Is smartd prepared to handle /dev/sdX style devices? Yes. You need to pass -d ata to smartd and smartctl, if your scripts are not already doing so. If this is the prefered driver these days, maybe it shouldn't be marked experimental in the menu anymore? It's not

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang

2008-02-22 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Jeff Garzik wrote: If this is the prefered driver these days, maybe it shouldn't be marked experimental in the menu anymore? It's not marked experimental. the comment on the very top of drivers/ata says: tristate Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers this is a bit