Subject : kernel BUG at drivers/ide/ide-disk.c:187 (2.6.31) Submitter : Santiago Garcia Mantinan <manty@manty.net> Date : 2009-09-30 11:05 References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125430926311466&w=4 Handled-By : David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Notify-Also : Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.30. Please don't close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
On Monday 12 October 2009, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Hi! > > > I gave the user a debugging patch, but they reported that they > > can no longer trigger the issue with 2.6.31.1 > > > > See: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=125469615425454&w=4 > > > > Maybe that's enough to close this, I dunno. > > I'm the user with the debugging patch, I'd say no, don't close it. > > Even though on my first tests I had the computer to crash the two weekends I > had tested, it seems that crashing on weekend was only luck and seems that > having the bug appear is more difficult than I had thought. > > So... my comments saying that 2.6.31.1 seemed ok are probably wrong (I have > read the .1 changelog and there is an ata patch, but probably unrelated). It > is true that I had 2.6.31.1 running for a whole week without it crashing, > but seems that crashing it may need more time. > > I'm now back to the 2.6.31 with the patch to debug it (3 days uptime) in > order to gather more info and after I get the info from 2.6.31 I'd test > 3.6.31.latest or even 2.6.32whatever in case you find that better.
On Sunday 29 November 2009, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14294 > > Hi! > > Sorry for not answering before, I've been running 2.6.31 patched for all > this time and the results are a bit dissapointing... > > The first run was for almost a month and ended up with half a hang, I could > read on the console that there had been an error on one of the disks, dma > error, the keyboard was working, getty seemed to work but then login didn't > show up when entering the username even though the disks led was flashing > when I operated the console entering usernames and all that. This hang was > not like the hangs I had before, don't know if it was due to the patch and > the unknown operation arriving to the IDE disk, but the message that the > patch was supposed to display was not displayed at all. > > The second run is current run I believe, currently it has an uptime of 18 > days and not problem was showed over this time. > > So... I'm afraid I'm not able to reproduce this and maybe the whole problem > is hardware related, even though the machine had been running with 2.6.30 in > a stable way, it is an old machine, so maybe it is not as healthy as I > believed, and even though memtest doesn't show any errors there could be > some dma problems or other weird things happening around :-( > > So... I'd say you can close the bug and if I happen to find it again... I'll > report it again.