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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:47:17 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interrupt (SCSI?) hang on 4.x
Message-ID:  <200701111647.18735.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070111211300.GA30702@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <20070102153608.GA78405@icarus.home.lan> <200701111340.48708.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070111211300.GA30702@icarus.home.lan>

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On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:13, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 01:40:48PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 10:36, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > Yes, I know 4.11 is EOL'd at the end of this month, but hopefully
> > > someone can shed some light on this problem anyways.  I simply don't
> > > have the knowledge of what's going on on a low-level to determine
> > > the cause.
> > > 
> > > I do have serial console on this box, and after enabling some
> > > debugging for the ahc(4) driver a few months back, was able to
> > > get something intelligent out of the system regarding SCBs this
> > > morning.  This may not be useful (or the cause), though.  I also
> > > cannot enable drop-to-DDB-on-serial-break because our Portmaster 2
> > > has been known to send a serial break on rare occasion.  :-(
> > > 
> > > Every so often (sometimes hours, sometimes months -- usually months),
> > > the 4.11 box we have "locks up" in the sense that both NICs on the
> > > box stop working, and the SCSI controller also appears hung.  This
> > > problem has existed for a couple years; it's not specific to 4.11
> > > (versus 4.10 or 4.9).
> > 
> > Can you try a RELENG_4 kernel?  I know of at least one fix (in 
> > sys/i386/isa/clock.c) since 4.11 was released that might help you out.
> 
> John,
> 
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> The kernel I'm using was built on the following date (thus, src-all
> for release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 was cvsup'd about an hour prior to this):
> 
> FreeBSD pentarou.parodius.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Sun May 28 
12:02:42 PDT 2006 root@pentarou.parodius.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PENTAROU  
i386
> 
> Which revision of sys/i386/isa/clock.c might have fixed the problem?
> I only see 1 commit between May 28th 2006 and present:

It was the 1.149.2.7, so you probably have that already.  I wasn't sure when 
you said "4.11" kernel if you meant RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_4.

-- 
John Baldwin



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