Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964918AbWAIS2J (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:28:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964919AbWAIS2J (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:28:09 -0500 Received: from smtp-9.smtp.ucla.edu ([169.232.48.137]:27825 "EHLO smtp-9.smtp.ucla.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964918AbWAIS2H (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:28:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:28:01 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Stromsoe To: Roberto Nibali cc: Willy Tarreau , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bad pmd filemap.c, oops; 2.4.30 and 2.4.32 In-Reply-To: <43BF8785.2010703@drugphish.ch> Message-ID: References: <20051228001047.GA3607@dmt.cnet> <1136030901.28365.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051231130151.GA15993@alpha.home.local> <20060105054348.GA28125@w.ods.org> <43BF8785.2010703@drugphish.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Probable-Spam: no X-Spam-Report: none Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1707 Lines: 47 On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Roberto Nibali wrote: >>> After a little more than one day up with 2.4.32 SMP+ACP+aic7xxx, I got >>> another bad pmd and an oops this morning at 4:23am. I'm going to boot >>> vanilla 2.4.32 with nosmp and acpi=off. > > Your oops does not make much sense, could you enable following, please: > > CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y > CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y > CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y kernel, sysrq, and frame_pointer were already enabled. I'll enable debug_slab, as well. >> booting with "nosmp acpi=off" did not help. The box hung as before, at > > Could you boot with pci=noacpi and report again? The difference is that > ACPI will still be used but not for IRQ routing. I have a few boxes out > with 2.4.x kernels and Adaptec HBAs that need this to work reliably. Are you interested in results from "pci=noacpi" by itself or in conjunction with nosmp? > What's the SCSI BIOS version? The SCSI controller is an onboard AIC 7899 (in a Dell PowerEdge 2650), and reports itself as "25309". > What's the diff between /proc/interrupt and lspci -v on those kernels, > when they've finished the booting sequence? > If you find time, send me your BIOS settings and your .config in private > email. I didn't track this thread from the beginning, so I don't know if > you've already done this. has the .config, lspci -v, and /proc/interrupts for 2.6.14.4 and 2.4.32. -Chris - 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/