Re: bad pmd filemap.c, oops; 2.4.30 and 2.4.32

[Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>]

>> 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

> 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.

> hda: TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: attached ide-cdrom driver.
> hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36

What's the SCSI BIOS version?

>        <Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
>        aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> 
> scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
>        <Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
>        aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> 
> scsi2 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
>        <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
>        aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> 
> blk: queue f7e46018, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
>  
> I waited about 10 minutes to see if it would continue, then booted back 
> into 2.6.14.4.

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.

It might also help to carry this problem over to the linux-scsi mailing 
list, since, I believe, most SCSI guys don't ready lkml too frequently.

Of course, if 2.6.x works for you and you need to go productive, then 
I'd switch to it if I was you.

Just my 2 cents,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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