> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:28:12PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've just uploaded version 1.3.8 of the aic79xx driver and version
>> 6.2.33 of the aic7xxx driver.  Both are available for 2.4.X and
>> 2.5.X kernels in either bk send format or as a tarball from here:
>>
>> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
>
> Hi Justin,
>
> I've just tested it and I still have the deadlock on SMP. I also tried with
> noapic, but it didn't change. I have reduced the TCQ from 253 to 32, and I
> had the impression that it was more difficult to trigger, although I cannot
> be certain. With 32, I could boot and go to about half the 'make -j 8 dep',
> while it hanged during init script with 253. I may retest by the week-end, but
> now I'm going to sleep. Now I'm back to 6.2.28 and everything's OK.

Can you try with this patch?  It seems I forgot to pull part of a change
from the aic79xx driver into the aic7xxx driver.  This could easily cause
a lock order reversal. <sigh>