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Bug 702674 - powerpc: Only sleep in rtas_busy_delay if we have useful work to do
Summary: powerpc: Only sleep in rtas_busy_delay if we have useful work to do
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.1
Hardware: ppc64
OS: All
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Steve Best
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 684953
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-06 14:40 UTC by IBM Bug Proxy
Modified: 2017-02-06 14:52 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-153.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-12-06 13:24:35 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1530 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel security, bug fix and enhancement update 2011-12-06 01:45:35 UTC

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2011-05-06 14:40:16 UTC 
---Problem Description---
With sufficient memory and the dynamic DMA window enabled, RHEL6.1 kernels will produce spurious messages like:

INFO: task modprobe:3333 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
modprobe      D 0000008060df9708     0  3333   2795 0x00008000
Call Trace:
[c0000016f2217670] [c0000016f2217720] 0xc0000016f2217720 (unreliable)
[c0000016f2217840] [c000000000014288] .__switch_to+0xf8/0x1d0
[c0000016f22178d0] [c00000000059cc68] .schedule+0x408/0xd30
[c0000016f2217bb0] [c0000000003aefd4] .wait_for_device_probe+0x64/0xc0
[c0000016f2217c70] [d00000001d1e0014] .wait_scan_init+0x10/0xc4 [scsi_wait_scan]
[c0000016f2217ce0] [c00000000000976c] .do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x200
[c0000016f2217d90] [c0000000000dd5dc] .SyS_init_module+0x14c/0x2c0
[c0000016f2217e30] [c000000000008564] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40

while firmware is setting up the TCEs. This is fixed upstream by commit eca590f402332ab873d13f2d8d00fa0b91cfff36 in benh's tree to only sleep in the RTAS delay loop if something else could be done. This changed the order of time required for the DDW initialization from minutes to seconds.
  
---uname output---
Linux ahi02.upt.austin.ibm.com 2.6.32-131.0.10.el6.ppc64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 27 15:28:11 EDT 2011 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
 
Machine Type = CHRP IBM,7891-74X (P7 Falcon Double Wide Blade) 

---Steps to Reproduce---
Boot the current 6.1 kernel with a 64-bit adapter under P7IOC and suitable firmware on a Falcon platform. Dynamic DMA windows will be initialized for those adapters and a spurious timeout message will occur.
Comment 1 IBM Bug Proxy 2011-05-06 14:40:21 UTC 
Created attachment 497373 [details]
Backport of eca590f402332ab873d13f2d8d00fa0b91cfff36
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2011-05-13 18:49:36 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.
Comment 4 Steve Best 2011-05-18 13:39:55 UTC 
posted to rh-kernel mailing list
http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhkernel-list/2011-May/msg00542.html
Comment 7 Aristeu Rozanski 2011-08-11 19:48:17 UTC 
Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-153.el6
Comment 10 IBM Bug Proxy 2011-10-04 18:41:22 UTC 
------- Comment From nacc.com 2011-10-04 14:27 EDT-------
Hello Redhat,

We would request this fix be backported to 6.1.z, per the following customer impact:

There is a large IBM customer who is seeing this bug. He has tried out the
patch that Anton submitted and confirms that it fixes his problem.

This customer is interested in learning if this will make it to RHEL 6.1
z-strream. One (z-stream)  is due out tomorrow. However, I suspect we would
have known by now if this was going into that one. If not, can we push for the
next one expected in about 6 weeks?

BTW, the slow boot problem was recreated with DDR adapters too (with a ps704)
at the customer site.

Thanks,
Nish
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 13:24:35 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html
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