On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: >> Mark Lord wrote: >>> Linus Torvalds wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Mark Lord wrote: >>>>> It would be good to have something soon-ish. >>>>> This "dead at boot time" issue is impacting the general ability to test >>>>> patches against latest -git in time for the current merge window. >>>> >>>> In the meantime, does the patch I sent out help people? >>> >>> Your patch from this posting http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/285 >>> does not seem to make much difference here. >>> >>> It still crashes at exactly the same place. >> However, Jens's patch from that same thread: >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/269 >> ..allowed me to boot and post this followup message from -git12 >> Jeff: try that one. > > That's already in my upstream kernel, here. commits > ba951841ceb7fa5b06ad48caa5270cc2ae17941e and > a3bec5c5aea0da263111c4d8f8eabc1f8560d7bf. > > sata_mv and sata_nv still reliably poop themselves here, whereas its rock > solid with 2.6.23.1. Sounds like different issues from yours, as I see a > stream of SATA errors on the bad kernels, errors which are often a symptom > of something whacked in the DMA engine (misprogramming causes the silicon > to generate bogus FIS's, which the device then chokes on)
Do you know if this poop involves the segment padding that sometimes goes on in libata? -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/