From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 19:18:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52983106568B; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239C88FC20; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B0BCB46B09; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:18:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DBBA38A01B; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:18:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: pluknet Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:35:04 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200910150853.49850.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910151135.04382.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:18:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DATE_IN_PAST_03_06,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-scsi , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfi(4) endless loop kernel output on attach X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:27 -0000 On Thursday 15 October 2009 11:16:23 am pluknet wrote: > 2009/10/15 John Baldwin : > > On Thursday 15 October 2009 5:51:19 am pluknet wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> This is 7.2-R. Seen on IBM x3650M2. > >> > >> During the boot I get those endless looping kernel messages while on > >> mfi(4) attach phase. > >> It's getting more odd since 7.2 booted and worked fine on exactly this > >> server model > >> months ago (on different box though).. Any hints? > > > > We just had some boxes die like this (but spewing a different loop of m= essages > > on boot related to continuously scheduling patrol reads and consistency > > checks that finished immediately) at work. =A0We fixed them by swapping= out the > > controller. =A0We might try stick them in a different box and reflashin= g them > > using mfiutil(8) to see if it's some sort of corrupted state that flash= ing > > the adapter fixes. > > > > In your case it looks lik the firmware keeps crashing and restarting. >=20 > Probably it is. Though clearing logs helped me. Well, from your other e-mail it seems it was just dumping lots of old logs since the previous clean shutdown. (I almost mentioned that case in my original e-mail). In that case you can simply let it finish walking through all the logs or you can set loader tunables to raise the minimum class of message so it skips all the lower priority info messages when walking the log. =2D-=20 John Baldwin