Problems with 7880 and smp system

[Jakob Curdes]

On 28-Nov-97 Doug Ledford wrote:
>>
>On 28-Nov-97 Jakob Curdes wrote:
>>I tried to install the new procfs and procinfo packages as 
>>suggested by the 2.1.66 readme, but the install failed
>>with a bunch of undefined references. I just try to not
>>touch the proc system, ubt perhaps my lockups still come 
>>from this 
>>area.
>
>I'm not sure which packages you are speaking of, but it won't help :)  The
>problem is in the file aic7xxx_proc.c as far as the message I was pointing
>out is concerned.  The best solution for now is to compile your kernel
>without the statistics reporting support in the proc file system code.  In
>other words, go into the aic7xxx.c file and comment out the #define for
>AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS then recompile your kernel.  That should help, although
>it's not gauranteed to stop the overflows.

I did that, but I still have deadlocks. The last one occurred 
when I printed a larger file. No error messages are 
printed to system log. I suspect that this comes
from the scsi driver, but I have no idea how I can find 
out more. I upgraded the kernel from 2.0.29 to 2.1.66, 
but this behaviour has not changed.

Any hitns appreciated,
Jacob Curdes


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