Re: 2.6.18-rc6-mm1 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 Kernel Panic on X60s

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Sep 09 2006 - 01:22:16 EST


On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:27:46 -0600
ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 14:43:00 -0500
> > Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 12:13 Fri 08 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 12:44:37 -0500
> >> > Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 boots ok.
> >> > >
> >> > > I will try and bisect the problem later tonight-
> >> >
> >> > Thanks. First, try disabling CONFIG_PCI_MSI.
> >>
> >> With CONFIG_PCI_MSI disabled the system boots.
> >
> > OK, thanks.
> >
> > So likely candidates are:
> >
> > - Brice's MSI changes
> >
> > - The conversion of i386 to use the genirq code
> >
> > - Eric's MSI/genirq changes
> >
> > or a combination of the above. Or something else.
> >
> > <adds ccs, steps back expectantly>
>
> Thanks for the heads up.
>
> There was another panic reported last -mm tree I believe as well.
>

Yes, there were a couple such reports. The MSI patches in Greg's tree were
blamed and rc6-mm1 has a revamped version. Whether they were sufficiently
revamped we do not know.

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