https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253968 Summary: freeze issue with the H8SSLi AM2 HT1000 Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: i386 OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Blocker Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: martin@tuxadero.com QAContact: qa@suse.de To whom it my concern, We use the H8SSL-I2 AM2 Board from Supermicro with 4GB RAM, 2 SATA-HDs on the onboard HT1000-Controller in a software RAID-1 configuration and the 1218 HE AMD CPU, the firmware version is "ServerWorks Serial ATA Controller MMIO BIOS V 3.0.0015.3h 09-14-2006". The OS is Suse 10.2 with the 2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp Kernel. Every time we start our initial hardware burnin-test, the system hangs after a few hours; our main test tool is stress (http://weather.ou.edu/%7Eapw/projects/stress/). The following symptoms are shown: After a system hang the system is still pingable, networksockets are open, but no userspace process is responding. At one instance we had a "top" open and almost all of the userspace processes were in the state of iowait. The console for the login is still responding (the typed characters are echoed back) but no login process is spawned. The Magic sys request is still working. If we use a 3ware RAID-controller card instead of the onboard controller, the system runs stable. If we use 2GB instead of the 4GB the system hangs are less frequent. If we use the the 2.6.20 kernel form kernel.org the system runs stable. I think all of the above points indicate that it is not a hardware issue, but a software issue, in particular a timing- / locking-issue of the SATA driver (ata_svw). Our main problem is that we can not switch to the 2.6.20 kernel, we must use the standart Suse kernel 2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp. Is there any workaround / fix or new fimrware known to fix this freeze issue? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced. Martin I also have a few Kerneldump: SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot Crashdump tErm Full kIll saK showMem Nice powerOff showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount SysRq : Show Memory Mem-info: DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 1 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 1 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 DMA32 per-cpu: empty Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:44 cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:53 cpu 1 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:155 cpu 1 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:49 HighMem per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:0 cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:44 cpu 1 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:4 cpu 1 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:16 Free pages: 12292kB (712kB HighMem) Active:349955 inactive:634280 dirty:13444 writeback:299620 unstable:0 free:3073 slab:46787 mapped:378 pagetables:1838 DMA free:4728kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 880 4368 DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 880 4368 Normal free:6852kB min:3756kB low:4692kB high:5632kB active:285560kB inactive:385388kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 27904 HighMem free:712kB min:512kB low:4236kB high:7960kB active:1114260kB inactive:2151732kB present:3571712kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 DMA: 48*4kB 31*8kB 16*16kB 6*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4728kB DMA32: empty Normal: 429*4kB 64*8kB 15*16kB 3*32kB 7*64kB 4*128kB 3*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6852kB HighMem: 0*4kB 1*8kB 12*16kB 2*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 712kB Swap cache: add 14757813, delete 14539413, find 43886/46204, race 2+5 Free swap = 171284kB Total swap = 1052152kB Free swap: 171284kB 1122304 pages of RAM 892928 pages of HIGHMEM 83665 reserved pages 142409 pages shared 218401 pages swap cached 13444 pages dirty 299620 pages writeback 378 pages mapped 46787 pages slab 1838 pages pagetables SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot Crashdump tErm Full kIll saK showMem Nice powerOff showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount SysRq : Show Regs Pid: 13466, comm: stress EIP: 0073:[<0804b0a9>] CPU: 1 EIP is at 0x804b0a9 ESP: 007b:bfe8984c EFLAGS: 00000292 Tainted: G U (2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp #1) EAX: 46cd6543 EBX: b7f284e0 ECX: b7f28328 EDX: b7f28088 ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: bfe89868 DS: 007b ES: 007b CR0: 80050033 CR2: 80105000 CR3: 1ff323e0 CR4: 000006f0 SysRq : Show Regs Pid: 13466, comm: stress EIP: 0073:[<0804b0b5>] CPU: 1 EIP is at 0x804b0b5 ESP: 007b:bfe89850 EFLAGS: 00000292 Tainted: G U (2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp #1) EAX: 36a8a2b3 EBX: b7f284e0 ECX: b7f28328 EDX: b7f28084 ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: bfe89868 DS: 007b ES: 007b CR0: 80050033 CR2: 80105000 CR3: 1ff323e0 CR4: 000006f0 SysRq : Show Regs Pid: 13466, comm: stress EIP: 0073:[<0804b0b5>] CPU: 1 EIP is at 0x804b0b5 ESP: 007b:bfe89850 EFLAGS: 00000292 Tainted: G U (2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp #1) EAX: 4aa2797d EBX: b7f284e0 ECX: b7f28328 EDX: b7f280d4 ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: bfe89868 DS: 007b ES: 007b CR0: 80050033 CR2: 80105000 CR3: 1ff323e0 CR4: 000006f0 SysRq : Show Regs Pid: 13466, comm: stress EIP: 0073:[<0804b0b5>] CPU: 1 EIP is at 0x804b0b5 ESP: 007b:bfe89850 EFLAGS: 00000292 Tainted: G U (2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp #1) EAX: 4904a9a3 EBX: b7f284e0 ECX: b7f28328 EDX: b7f280d8 ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: bfe89868 DS: 007b ES: 007b CR0: 80050033 CR2: 80105000 CR3: 1ff323e0 CR4: 000006f0 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.