On 6/28/2010 4:50 PM, Chris Li wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> My Mac Pro hit this BUG every time it try to load module ioatdma.
>
> This was first discover in FC 12&  13 kernel. See redhat bug 605845.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605845. I attach a picture
> of the kernel panic on the bug.
>
> The current git tree has it as well. The bug line number change a
> little bit though.
>
>
> 		/* when halted due to errors check for channel
> 		 * programming errors before advancing the completion state
> 		 */
> 		if (is_ioat_halted(status)) {
> 			u32 chanerr;
>
> 			chanerr = readl(chan->reg_base + IOAT_CHANERR_OFFSET);
> 			dev_err(to_dev(chan), "%s: Channel halted (%x)\n",
> 				__func__, chanerr);
> 			BUG_ON(is_ioat_bug(chanerr));<---------------------------------
> 		}
>
> The machine is a Mac Pro. The bug is reproducible 100%. Black list the
> ioatdma module and the kernel boot just fine.
>
> Any suggestion? I am not afraid to try out patches.
>

Looks like that dev_err() did not make it to the console.  The attached 
patch should get us some more debug information.  This will stop the 
driver from making forward progress (applies to current -git).  I 
suspect this may be triggering from the driver self test, but to be safe 
you should set CONFIG_NET_DMA=n and CONFIG_ASYNC_TX_DMA=n.

--
Dan