Date: 02 Nov 2007 21:08:02 +0100 From: "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> To: Alexander Sabourenkov <screwdriver@lxnt.info> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround. Message-ID: <wpsl3oe7h9.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <472A548B.50406@lxnt.info> References: <472A548B.50406@lxnt.info>
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Hello, Alexander Sabourenkov <screwdriver@lxnt.info> writes: > Hello. > > I have ported the workaround for the hardware bug that causes data > corruption on Promise SATA300 TX4 cards to RELENG_7. > > Bug description: > SATA300 TX4 hardware chokes if last PRD entry (in a dma transfer) is > larger than 164 bytes. This was found while analysing vendor-supplied > linux driver. > > Workaround: > Split trailing PRD entry if it's larger that 164 bytes. > > Two supplied patches do fix problem on my machine. definitely an improvement, but not sufficient (for my setup ) : amd64-releng_6 on an ASUS A8V UP (box ran rock-stable for years i386-releng_5 with same hardware apart TX4 and drives) from dmesg : atapci0: <Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller> port 0xe000-0xe07f,0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xfbb00000-0xfbb00fff,0xfba00000-0xfba1ffff irq 18 at device 13.0 on pci0 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0 ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0 atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> port 0xd400-0xd407,0xd000-0xd003,0xc800-0xc807,0xc400-0xc403,0xc000-0xc00f,0xb800-0xb8ff irq 20 at device 15.0 on pci0 ata6: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 ata7: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 atapci2: <VIA 8237 UDMA133 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci2 ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci2 [ ... ] ad0: 38166MB <Seagate ST3402111A 3.AAJ> at ata0-master UDMA100 ad6: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata3-master SATA300 ad12: 305245MB <WDC WD3200JD-22KLB0 08.05J08> at ata6-master SATA150 booting from ad0 and simple gconcat over ad6 and ad12. Improvement : I now can fsck /dev/concat/data without ad6 being detached Persistent problem : when I rsync an nfs-mounted disk to /dev/concat/data, I get after about some Gigs of data have been transfered : Nov 2 16:39:55 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=268435392 Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=268435392 Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=ff<BUSY,READY,DMA_READY,DSC,DRQ,CORRECTABLE,INDEX,ERROR> error=ff<ICRC,UNCORRECTABLE,MEDIA_CHANGED,NID_NOT_FOUND,MEDIA_CHANGE_REQEST,ABORTED,NO_MEDIA,ILLEGAL_LENGTH> LBA=268435392 Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: g_vfs_done():concat/data[WRITE(offset=137438920704, length=131072)]error = 5 Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=268435648 Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=268435648 Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 timed out LBA=268435648 Nov 2 16:40:50 charlotte kernel: g_vfs_done():concat/data[WRITE(offset=137439051776, length=131072)]error = 5 ... I will test again with "#define PDC_MAXLASTSGSIZE 32*4" (just to see if that makes a difference) Regards, Arno
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