Re: isp1020 memory trample in 2.5.66

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Patrick Mansfield wrote:

> I've been booting OK with 2.5.66 with isp1020 and qlogicisp driver with
> multiple disks, though the boot sometimes hangs.
> 
> I've also booted OK with the feral driver.

I'll be prepping a kernel with that.

> This looks a lot like the oops when trying to send IO to more than one
> disk at a time with the isp1020 + qlogicisp.
> 
> Is there something different causing IO to muliple disks at that point?

Yes it is possible as i have another disk on the same HBA with /usr

> I hit this once when I enabled parallel fsck (it didn't oops until after I
> got a late oops, and rebooted).
> 
> Martin hit it when the queue depth was not properly checked.
> 
> wli has hit it with parallel mkfs (or something).

Ok this thing sounds _very_ fragile ;)

> The following thread was pretty useful, Doug L mentions that the qlogicisp
> does bad things, starting with Martin's analysis:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104457083601573&w=2

Thanks! that looks very familiar.

	Zwane
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