Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-19 Thread Luben Tuikov
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:05:39AM -0800 On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:00:12 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have identified the patch that causes the problem to appear, which is

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:26:00 -0800 (PST) Luben Tuikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason was that my dev tree was tainted by this bug: if (good_bytes - scsi_end_request(cmd, 1, good_bytes, !!result) == NULL) + scsi_end_request(cmd, 1, good_bytes, result == 0)

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 16 December 2006 12:16, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 16 December 2006 10:56, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 16 December 2006 00:38, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 15 December 2006 23:24, Jeff Garzik wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 15

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-17 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:00:12 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have identified the patch that causes the problem to appear, which is fix-sense-key-medium-error-processing-and-retry.patch With this patch reverted -rc1-mm1 is happily running on my test box. That was

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-17 Thread Jiri Slaby
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Okay, I have identified the patch that causes the problem to appear, which is fix-sense-key-medium-error-processing-and-retry.patch With this patch reverted -rc1-mm1 is happily running on my test box. Yes! Here too. Good work. regards, --

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-17 Thread thunder7
From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:05:39AM -0800 On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:00:12 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have identified the patch that causes the problem to appear, which is

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 16 December 2006 00:38, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 15 December 2006 23:24, Jeff Garzik wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I

sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:20:57PM +1100 i.e. current -mm is good for 2.6.20 (though I have a few other little things I'll be sending in soon, they aren't related to the raid6 problem). 2.6.20-rc1-mm1

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:50:01 +1100 Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:20:57PM +1100 i.e. current -mm is good for 2.6.20 (though I have a few other little things I'll be

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them. I'll then do a rc1-mm2 without them. hm, this is looking like a lot of work for

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
I don't think it's in -rc1, please see below. On Friday, 15 December 2006 21:50, Neil Brown wrote: On Friday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:20:57PM +1100 i.e. current -mm is good for 2.6.20 (though I have a few other

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:05, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:50:01 +1100 Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:20:57PM +1100 i.e. current -mm is good for

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them. I'll then do a

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:49, Jeff Garzik wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: The other box is mine and it works just fine with 2.6.20-rc1. I think something bad happened in sata land just recently. Yup. Please see, for example:

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 23:06, Alan wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time and I

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
The Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1 sub-thread that had Jens and Alistair John Strachan replying seemed to implicate some core block layer badness. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: The other box is mine and it works just fine with 2.6.20-rc1. I think something bad happened in sata land just recently. Yup. Please see, for example: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=116621656432500w=2 It looks like the breakage is in sata, in the

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Alan
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them.

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them. I'll then do a

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them.

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 23:19, Jeff Garzik wrote: Alan wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 23:24, Jeff Garzik wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread thunder7
From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:48:44PM -0500 The Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1 sub-thread that had Jens and Alistair John Strachan replying seemed to implicate some core block layer badness. The original problem (not mounting my raid6 partition) is observable in