From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Panics with libata functions in stack. Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:28:43 +0900 Message-ID: <44C9927B.5060706@gmail.com> References: <20060727180027.GM27144@technolalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.181]:60884 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750760AbWG1E2t (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:28:49 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id s49so510991pyc for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:28:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20060727180027.GM27144@technolalia.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Nicholas Dronen Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Nicholas Dronen wrote: > Hi, linux-ide: > > We have a workstation with a dual-core Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz processor that > started to panic last Friday. The machine stays up for 15 minutes to > a few hours, then it panics again. We suspect a hardware problem, but > I'd like to ask here whether there's newer libata or other code that > fixes the panic. > > I've seen two panics since I heard about the problem and the stack trace > each time has been: > > Badness in i8042_panic_blink at drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:988 > i8042_panic_blink +0x188/0x1a0 > panic +0xc/0x147 > die +0x164/0x16b > vprintk +0x136/0x149 > do_page_fault +0x0/0x5b6 > do_page_fault +0x3f0/0x5b6 > ata_to_sense_error +0x40/0x299 [libata] > recalc_task_prio +0x128/0x133 > activate_task +0x88/0x95 > try_to_wakeup +0x222/0x22d > autoremove_wake_function +0xd/0x2d > __wake_up_common +0x36/0x51 > do_page_fault +0x0/0x5b6 > error_code + 0x2f/0x38 > ata_to_sense_error +0x40/0x299 [libata] > ata_scsi_qc_complete +0x17/0x2d [libata] > ata_qc_complete +0x6b/0x7b [libata] > ahci_interrupt +0x100/0x151 [ahci] > handle_IRQ_event +0x25/0x4f > do_IRQ +0xb0/0x130 > common_interrupt +0x18/0x20 > unix_detach_fds +0x2e/0x31 > > (Anything confusing about the stack might be due to the fact that I > wrote it down by hand.) > > The kernel came with RedHat EL 4.0. Uname -r shows 2.6.9-5.ELsmp. > In case it's useful, here is output from dmesg. libata has seen a LOT of updates during last few months. Can you try 2.6.17.7 or 2.6.18-rc2? -- tejun