Re: [BUG][bisected 270065e] linux-next fails to boot on powerpc

2017-08-21 Thread Martin K. Petersen
Brian, >> Thanks for the detailed analysis. This is very helpful. Have you >> considered to change the ipr driver such that it terminates REPORT >> SUPPORTED OPERATION CODES commands with the appropriate check >> condition code instead of DID_ERROR? > > Yes. That data is actually in the sense

Re: [BUG][bisected 270065e] linux-next fails to boot on powerpc

2017-08-18 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 16:57 -0500, Brian King wrote: > To add to my analysis above, #9 should not be there... It looks like > jiffies_at_alloc would also be getting reinitialized in this case, resulting > in > a perpetual retry, which is what I was seeing. Hello Brian, Some time ago I noticed

Re: [BUG][bisected 270065e] linux-next fails to boot on powerpc

2017-08-18 Thread Brian King
On 08/18/2017 04:41 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 16:04 -0500, Brian King wrote: >> I think I have an understanding what is going on and why Bart's patch is >> causing problems for ipr. >> I can work around the boot hang in ipr, but ultimately I think we need to >> figure

Re: [BUG][bisected 270065e] linux-next fails to boot on powerpc

2017-08-18 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 16:04 -0500, Brian King wrote: > I think I have an understanding what is going on and why Bart's patch is > causing problems for ipr. > I can work around the boot hang in ipr, but ultimately I think we need to > figure out a fix > in scsi / block. I added some tracing and

Re: [BUG][bisected 270065e] linux-next fails to boot on powerpc

2017-08-18 Thread Brian King
On 08/17/2017 10:52 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 18:18 -0500, Brian King wrote: >> On 08/16/2017 12:21 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: >>> On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 22:30 +0530, Abdul Haleem wrote: As of next-20170809, linux-next on powerpc boot hung with below trace

Re: [BUG][bisected 270065e] linux-next fails to boot on powerpc

2017-08-17 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 18:18 -0500, Brian King wrote: > On 08/16/2017 12:21 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 22:30 +0530, Abdul Haleem wrote: > > > As of next-20170809, linux-next on powerpc boot hung with below trace > > > message. > > > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > > A bisection