[SOLVED] Problem with 4.14.56 and hpsa driver

Hello,

I have problem with latest kernel on current 4.14.56

Linux home 4.14.56 #1 SMP Wed Jul 11 19:33:43 CDT 2018 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5530 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

My controller is P410i: 04:00.0 RAID bus controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array G6 controllers (rev 01)

After boot pc freeze like bellow on 4.14.56

[    0.724218] sd 0:1:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    0.734139]  sda: sda1 sda2
[    0.734820] sd 0:1:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    0.879715] scsi host1: ata_piix
[    0.880297] scsi host2: ata_piix
[    0.880465] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1080 ctl 0x1088 bmdma 0x10a0 irq 17
[    0.880585] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1090 ctl 0x1098 bmdma 0x10a8 irq 17
[    0.882494] scsi host3: pata_legacy
[    0.882659] ata3: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 irq 14
[    1.375099] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2400.084 MHz
[    1.375871] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x229886f1f14, max_idle_ns: 440795306808 ns
[    1.513668] ata2.00: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 300)
[    1.513795] ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 300)
[    1.671196] ata1.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[    1.671325] ata1.01: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 300)
[    1.671447] ata1.01: link offline, clearing class 3 to NONE
[    1.690338] ata1.00: ATAPI: hp      DVD-ROM DDU820S, MH80, max UDMA/100
[    1.712292] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[    2.383561] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
[    2.407110] random: fast init done
[    3.743438] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[    3.745023] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            hp       DVD-ROM DDU820S  MH80 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    3.796948] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[    3.797137] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[   31.798127] hpsa 0000:04:00.0 scsi 0:1:0:0 resettring logical Direct-Access
HP           LOGICAL VOLUME     RAID-1(+0) SSDSmartPathCap- En- Exp=1

but it's worker and dmesg look different on previous kernel 4.14.55 x86_64 from current tree:

    1.671325] ata1.01: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 300)
[    1.671447] ata1.01: link offline, clearing class 3 to NONE
[    1.690338] ata1.00: ATAPI: hp      DVD-ROM DDU820S, MH80, max UDMA/100
[    1.712292] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[    2.383561] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
[    2.407110] random: fast init done
[    3.743438] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[    3.745023] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            hp       DVD-ROM DDU820S  MH80 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    3.796948] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[    3.797137] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    3.797527] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[    3.811986] scsi host3: pata_legacy
[    3.812208] ata4: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 irq 15
[    3.979469] Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.20
[    3.979581] Copyright (c) 1999-2008 LSI Corporation

I just report the problem.

Hello ppl,
I try to upgrade today with new kernel 4.14.57 x86_64 that is on current, but I have the same problem. This time I can picture the error on another machine with same driver. Both machines using hpsa driver.

Kernel panic pic

Did some one can tell me: Is there any changes made in kernel config file on versions 4.14.56 or 4.14.57, because everything is worked on 4.14.55 and I read the kernel changelog and did not found changes on scsi or hpsa driver. Both machines dies on sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0.

Any advice ?

Just ran into this problem. It's still present with 4.14.58 and not Slackware specific since I roll my own kernel. Will post if I find out the cause.

It appears this patch broke it:

[PATCH 4.14 25/54] genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg247920.html

and this patch (yet to be backported to stable) fixes it:
[PATCH V5 1/5] scsi: hpsa: fix selection of reply queue
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-b.../msg19362.html

so I would avoid hpsa and > 4.14.55 till this settles out.

"stable" is an aspiration, not a guarantee.

fyi, reverting the first genirq/affinity patch restores hpsa to working on 4.14.58

Thanks, it's seems need to wait.