[ofw] Opensm & WinMad: a race, causing BSOD722

Hefty, Sean sean.hefty at intel.com
Fri Jan 27 14:30:34 PST 2012


I updated to FW 2.9.1 and the tip of svn worked again.  IMO, the latest drivers should not automatically break a working HCA just because the firmware is older (was 2.7).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Stan
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 10:12 AM
> To: Hefty, Sean; Tzachi Dar; Leonid Keller
> Cc: Uri Habusha; ofw_list; Irena Gannon
> Subject: RE: Opensm & WinMad: a race, causing BSOD722
> 
> Data point: the head of SVN builds and installs correctly and validates
> correctly for Connect-X2 and Infinihost on the 6 systems (2 CX + 4 InfiniHost)
> I tested.
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Hefty, Sean
> >Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:06 PM
> >To: Tzachi Dar; Leonid Keller; Smith, Stan
> >Cc: Uri Habusha; ofw_list; Irena Gannon
> >Subject: RE: Opensm & WinMad: a race, cauing BSOD722
> >
> >> I swapped the HCA with one from another system, but still see the error.
> The
> >> OFED 3.0 release works fine.  I will try backing out my changes and testing
> >> with the head of the svn tree tomorrow or early next week, though I don't
> see
> >> why the changes would affect loading the driver.
> >
> >Ok,  my build went faster than I expected.  I was able to apply this patch to
> the 3.0 code release and verify that it at least doesn't crash the
> >system.
> >
> >- Sean



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