Bug 138814

Summary: diskdump on megaraid stalls after printing "start dumping"
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Jun'ichi NOMURA <junichi.nomura>
Component: kernelAssignee: Tatsuo Uchida <tuchida>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: aimamura, akiyama.nobuyuk, anderson, halligan, indou.takao, linux-scsi, makita, mayuzumi.masa, nagahama, ntachino, petrides, tburke, tuchida, watanabe.mas-20
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Description Jun'ichi NOMURA 2004-11-11 12:04:54 UTC
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Description of problem:
While using megaraid2.o driver,
diskdump stalls before writing dump to dump device.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.21-23.EL

How reproducible:
Almost Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up diskdump with dump device on megaraid2.o
2. Crash kernel by SysRq+c
3.
    

Actual Results:
 dump procedure stops at displaying message:
 ...
 CPU frozen: #0#1#2#3
 CPU#0 is executing diskdump.
 start dumping
 <here>



Expected Results:
 CPU frozen: #0#1#2#3
 CPU#0 is executing diskdump.
 start dumping
 check dump partition
 ...


Additional info:

This problem does not occur with aic79xx.

Comment 3 Ernie Petrides 2004-11-12 00:34:30 UTC
*** Bug 138815 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jun'ichi NOMURA 2004-11-12 13:07:28 UTC
The latest beta (2.4.21-24.EL) includes a fix to this problem.
It successfully finish writing dump.


Comment 6 Tatsuo Uchida 2004-11-12 20:25:49 UTC
It is fixed by 2.4.21-24.EL (diskdump-megaraid2a.patch).


Comment 8 John Flanagan 2004-12-20 20:56:57 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-550.html