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

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

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