Re: [Bug 73621] Kernel exception loading sym53c8xx on dual AMD Athlon Tyan S2460 motherboard

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 09:39 +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
wrote:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73621
> 
> Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> changed:
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> --- Comment #1 from Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> ---
> Incorrect memory frees on error path
> 
> [    4.522582] sym0: <825> rev 0x2 at pci 0000:00:09.0 irq 10
> [    4.552156] sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
> [    4.580096] CACHE TEST FAILED: script execution failed.
> [    4.608092] start=35bbf900, pc=0000680c, end=35bbf92c
> [    4.636239] sym0: CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.
> [    4.664419] sym0: giving up ...

This is the failure, but it's a fatal configuration one; I don't think
we know how to fix it.

> [    4.692375] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    4.693343] WARNING: at
> /usr/src/linux-3.10.36/arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h:166

This is just a warning about freeing with interrupts disabled.  It's
probably fixable, but since the major problem is the cache configuration
one, there doesn't seem to be much point.

James