Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265128AbTFFJE2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265161AbTFFJE2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:04:28 -0400 Received: from angband.namesys.com ([212.16.7.85]:37776 "EHLO angband.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265128AbTFFJE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:04:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:17:59 +0400 From: Oleg Drokin To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: willy@w.ods.org, gibbs@scsiguy.com, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Undo aic7xxx changes (now rc7+aic20030603) Message-ID: <20030606091759.GC23608@namesys.com> References: <2804790000.1052441142@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20030509120648.1e0af0c8.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030509120659.GA15754@alpha.home.local> <20030509150207.3ff9cd64.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030606081712.GA27663@namesys.com> <20030606110408.1c8ef962.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030606110408.1c8ef962.skraw@ithnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 31 Hello! On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:04:08AM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > No, it did crashed in allocation code (you skipped one trace line): > > Jun 5 16:53:55 admin kernel: Call Trace: [__kmem_cache_alloc+107/304] > > [kmem_cache_grow+508/624] > > [__kmem_cache_alloc+125/304]+[get_mem_for_virtual_node+87/224] > > [fix_nodes+198/1008] > > > > And the EIP is in kmem_cache_alloc_batch, sounds like it tripped on bad > > pointer or something like this. So something is corrupting slab lists it > > seems. > I agree with you. Only problem is: how can I find out what caused the problem. Probably by careful code observations. > The only thing I can tell is that the box never hangs when using only HDs on > the aic & 3ware controllers. As soon as I begin to use a SDLT drive on aic > things get fishy. You do not have reiserfs filesystem on a tape drive, right? ;) But thhat reduces the region to review to parts thqt deal with tape devices and tape-specific stuff, it seems. Bye, Oleg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/