mptutil(8) segfault on IBM xSeries 3550

[Charles Owens]

pluknet wrote:
> On 16 February 2010 01:25, Charles Owens <cowens at greatbaysoftware.com> wrote:
>   
>> Charles Owens wrote:
>>     
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> We're working with IBM hardware (xSeries 3550) that has an
>>> mpt-based RAID controller... after initial success with testing the
>>> mptutil utility, now operations other than "show adapter" and "show
>>> volume" are resulting in segfaults.
>>>
>>> While it was working properly we created and removed volumes several
>>> times, force-failed drives, and just generally put it through its
>>> paces... and all seemed fine.  Then, after a reboot, it suddenly started
>>> failing with segfault as described, and nothing we do has helped to get
>>> it out of this state (including trying to use the LSI in-BIOS manager to
>>> create/delete volumes -- which in and of itself works fine).
>>>
>>> We found recent thread
>>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4B56CD4C.80503 and hoped that it
>>> might somehow relate... and even tried the patch that John Baldwin
>>> posted, but to no avail.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this behavior and/or have a suggested fix or workaround?
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's the output of "mptutil show adapter":
>>>
>>> mpt0 Adapter:
>>>        Board Name: SR-BR10i
>>>    Board Assembly: L3-25116-01H
>>>         Chip Name: C1068E
>>>     Chip Revision: UNUSED
>>>       RAID Levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E
>>>     RAID0 Stripes: 64K
>>>    RAID1E Stripes: 64K
>>>  RAID0 Drives/Vol: 1-10
>>>  RAID1 Drives/Vol: 2
>>> RAID1E Drives/Vol: 3-10
>>>
>>>
>>> This work is being done using FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 + PAE.
>>>
>>>       
>> I should add that the RAID controller in question is the IBM
>> ServeRAID-BR10i SAS/SATA Controller which is based on the LSI 1068E
>> processor, as described here:
>> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/872/ENUSAG09-0104/index.html
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Hi, would you show ktrace output?
>   

I'm going to do this today.  Should I run ktrace with any particular
arguments (ie. the "-t" option) ?

Thanks,  Charles