J.A. Magallón wrote: > HI all... > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:19:16 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> It's been two weeks since rc6, but let's face it, with xmas and new years >> (and birthdays) in between, there hasn't actually been a lot of working >> days, and the incremental patch from -rc6 is about half the size of the >> one from rc5->rc6. >> >> And I'll be charitable and claim it's because it's all stabilizing, and >> not because we've all been in a drunken stupor over the holidays. >> >> The shortlog (appended below) is short and fairly informative. It's all >> really just a lot of rather small changes. The diffstat shows a lot of >> one- and two-liners, with just a few drivers (and the Cell platform) >> getting a bit more attention, and the SLUB support of /proc/slabinfo >> showing up as a blip. >> > > With this kernel I'm getting frequent temporary freezes (system comes > back responsive after a minute or so...). I see this in dmesg: > > ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata3.00: cmd ca/00:08:67:10:18/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 out > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata3.00: status: { DRDY } > ata3: soft resetting link > ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 > ata3: EH complete > sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 390721968 512-byte hardware sectors (200050 MB) > sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off > sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support > DPO or FUA > > ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata4.00: cmd c8/00:08:ef:0b:c7/00:00:00:00:00/e7 tag 0 dma 4096 in > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata4.00: status: { DRDY } > ata4: soft resetting link > ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 > ata4: EH complete > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support > DPO or FUA > > See this are two different drives, I doubt both drives have gone nuts > at the same time...
That's weird. There hasn't been any related changes. Does going back to 2.6.24-rc6 fix the problem? -- tejun -- 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/