Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc3-git2 softlockup detected

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:00:47 -0800

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:39:29 -0500 Kyle McMartin <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:35:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ten million is close enough to infinity for me to assume that we broke the
> > driver and that's never going to terminate.
> > 
> 
> how about this? doesn't break things on my pa8800:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> index 463f119..ef01cb1 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> @@ -1037,10 +1037,13 @@ restart_test:
>  	/*
>  	 *  Wait 'til done (with timeout)
>  	 */
> -	for (i=0; i<SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT; i++)
> +	do {	
>  		if (INB(np, nc_istat) & (INTF|SIP|DIP))
>  			break;
> -	if (i>=SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
> +		msleep(10);
> +	} while (i++ < SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT);
> +
> +	if (i >= SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT) {
>  		printf ("CACHE TEST FAILED: timeout.\n");
>  		return (0x20);
>  	}
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
> index ad07880..85c483b 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.h
> @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
>  /*
>   *  Misc.
>   */
> -#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (10000000)
> +#define SYM_SNOOP_TIMEOUT (1000)
>  #define BUS_8_BIT	0
>  #define BUS_16_BIT	1
>  

That might be the fix, but do we know what we're actually fixing?  afaik
2.6.24-rc3 doesn't get this timeout, 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 does get it and we
don't know why?