Re: 2.6.18-mm1

[Andy Whitcroft]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:25:40 +0100
> Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Ok.  Now that we've got past the linker changes breaking down under
>> older tool chains I am getting following panic on boot.  The machine has
>> one of these, other machines do seem to boot:
>>
>> 0000:02:04.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030
>> PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07)
>>
>> It appears that this driver is unchanged between 2.6.18 and -mm1.
>> 2.6.18 boots just fine.  Odd.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> -apw
>>
>> mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
>> ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator}
>> mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000500 RIP:
>>  [<ffffffff803fadfb>] mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0x10/0x4a
>> PGD 0
>> Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
>> last sysfs file:
>> CPU 0
>> Modules linked in:
>> Pid: 14, comm: events/0 Not tainted 2.6.18-mm1-autokern1 #1
>> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff803fadfb>]  [<ffffffff803fadfb>]
>> mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0x10/0x4a
>> RSP: 0000:ffff8101000e1e20  EFLAGS: 00010282
>> RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff810001fe6940 RCX: 000000000000001f
>> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff810001fe6940 RDI: 0000000000001fe6
>> RBP: ffff8101000e1e30 R08: ffff8101000e0000 R09: 0000000000000011
>> R10: ffff810001014820 R11: ffff810001014820 R12: 0000000000000500
>> R13: ffff810001ef1640 R14: 0000000000000206 R15: ffff810001fe6940
>> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff80582000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
>> CR2: 0000000000000500 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
>> Process events/0 (pid: 14, threadinfo ffff8101000e0000, task
>> ffff8100816b1040)
>> Stack:  ffff810001fe6940 ffff810001fe6948 ffff8101000e1e70 ffffffff80239163
>>  ffffffff803fadeb ffff810001ef1640 ffff810001f0dd40 ffffffff802391a7
>>  00000000fffffffc ffffffff804b08d4 ffff8101000e1f00 ffffffff8023929a
>> Call Trace:
>>  [<ffffffff80239163>] run_workqueue+0xa2/0xe6
>>  [<ffffffff803fadeb>] mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0x0/0x4a
>>  [<ffffffff802391a7>] worker_thread+0x0/0x126
>>  [<ffffffff8023929a>] worker_thread+0xf3/0x126
>>  [<ffffffff80224de3>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xf
>>  [<ffffffff80224de3>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xf
>>  [<ffffffff802391a7>] worker_thread+0x0/0x126
>>  [<ffffffff8023c304>] kthread+0xd0/0xfc
>>  [<ffffffff8020a658>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
>>  [<ffffffff8023c234>] kthread+0x0/0xfc
>>  [<ffffffff8020a64e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
>>
>>
>> Code: 49 8b 04 24 31 f6 48 8b b8 48 01 00 00 e8 5f 8f fe ff 48 85
>> RIP  [<ffffffff803fadfb>] mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0x10/0x4a
>>  RSP <ffff8101000e1e20>
>> CR2: 0000000000000500
> 
> There are mpt-fusion changes in 2.6.18-mm1, but afaict they're in mainline
> now.  Do you know if current -linus works OK?

Arse, it seems that the other problem that we are talking about on this
machine also just got pushed up to mainline (2.6.18-git7) so it
currently doesn't compile.

Will try the same fix on that I used on -mm1 and see if it fixes that.

-apw
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