Bug#1006149: linux-image-5.16.0-1-686: Fails to boot on T41 Thinkpads

[Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>]

On 4/4/22 14:09, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Damien,
>
> Damien Le Moal wrote:
> > My hunch is that this drive simply reacts badly to read log commands
> > and should be marked with a horkage to blacklist that command for
> > it.
>
> Hrm, do really mean drive or controller? If you really mean "drive",
> shall all who are affected by this send in all the affected HDD's
> details? (Taking Petra back into Cc for that.)

I mean drive. Nothing new here. There are plenty of drives like that :)

> I think you already have mine, but just to be sure, here's the
> affected HDD's details:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> Disk /dev/sda: 149.05 GiB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors
> Disk model: SAMSUNG HM160HC
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x000500cc
>
> […]
> # smartctl -i /dev/sda
> smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [i686-linux-5.15.0-3-686-pae] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family:     SAMSUNG SpinPoint M5
> Device Model:     SAMSUNG HM160HC
> Serial Number:    S12TJD0SA62821
> LU WWN Device Id: 5 0f0000 003162821
> Firmware Version: LQ100-10
> User Capacity:    160’041’885’696 bytes [160 GB]
> Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
> Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS, ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 0
> Transport Type:   Parallel, Unknown (0x00f)
> Local Time is:    Mon Apr  4 07:02:54 2022 CEST
> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> SMART support is: Enabled
>
> > Cleanups for read log handling in 5.15 actually now use that command
> > to check accesses to any log page. Meaning that prior to 5.15, the
> > command was not issued for that drive.
>
> I think you meant 5.16 in this paragraph. 5.15 works well. 5.16 is the
> one which no more works.

Yes.

> > I will send a patch to blacklist read log for that drive later today, to
> > try. If that patch works, I will queue it and cc stable so that it gets
> > backported.
>
> I assume this still requires recompilation as this blacklist is
> probably compiled into the kernel and not just a file in the
> initramfs.

Correct. You will need to compile and install a kernel. Can you do that 
? If you cannot, can someone from the Debian project provide a patched 
compiled kernel for testing ?

> 		Regards, Axel


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research