Re: kernel panic, Areca, 6.2-REL with GENERIC [Was: Re: 6.2-st panic w/ ggate [Was: Re: kernel panic on 6.2-RC2 with GENERIC.]]



On Aug 29, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Scott Long wrote:

Isaac Levy wrote:
Hi All,
I hate to say, I'm picking up from this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-January/ 031970.html
On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Scott Long wrote:
I don't see how they could be related. I've committed a fix for the Areca problem.

Scott
I've reproduced the Areca problem from previous threads this year, and was wondering if it's still broken, or if there's anything I'm missing?
Here's what happens:
<snip>
Aug 29 01:56:38 greengoose sudo: ike : TTY=ttyp6 ; PWD=/usr/ home/ike ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/periodic daily
Aug 29 01:57:29 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da2p1[WRITE (offset=5998165426176, length=131072)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=27556233216, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=27556249600, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=27556216832, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=27556298752, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=27556315136, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=27556282368, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=27556331520, length=16384)]error = 5
<repeat around 1710 times>
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=122359873536, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=122359889920, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=122359939072, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=122359955456, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=122360086528, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE (offset=28133228544, length=16384)]error = 5
<pop goes the kernel>
Aug 29 02:11:40 greengoose syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/ kernel/kernel
<snip>
Here's the specs:
FreeBSD 6.2-REL, i386 GENERIC kernel (installed today [many times over])
da2: <Areca ARC-1160-VOL#02 R001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
(12 chhannel SATA Raid, Maxtor disks, with 'Disable Maxtor' under 'HDD Read-Ahead Cache' set)
Firmware Version - V1.43 2007-4-17
BOOT ROM Version - V1.41 2006-5-24
Additional info:
- Volumes are Raid5 and Pass-Through drives
- Pass-Through drives fail just like the Raid5 volumes do
- Each time it crashes, disk i/o is SCREAMING'.
--
If I've missed something, please feel free to point me to the url!
But if not, it seems whatever bug in this driver existed, did not go away...
(Sidenote: Gotta give a big thanks to the whoever is working on these drivers, once you get working with big disks, it takes A LONG TIME to figure out what's wrong... A fsck takes forever... Not whining, actually I'm really meaning to thank the driver writers for wading through this thick muck!!!)

There are locking problems in the arcmsr driver. I fixed them in HEAD but not in 6-STABLE yet. I really don't have time today to generate patch; I encourage someone to look at the commit I made on July 31 and
backport those changes to 6-STABLE.

Scott

That's excellent to hear!

For the record, are these the most current changes you speak of?:
(I'm reading through the source, perhaps eventually I'll be able to help more...)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/arcmsr/

- I am not capable of backporting the changes,
+ but I will gladly test any changes this with a GENERIC kernel once they make it to STABLE

Rocket,
.ike


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