Attached is a patch which seems to fix the oops for me. Without the patch I can consistently reproduce the oops in just a couple minutes. With the patch I have been running for close to an hour without problems so far. Doug, does this look ok? I'm going to let my testcase run overnight as well and will post the results tomorrow. > I have been experiencing occasional oopses in some testing I have been > doing and have recently been able to aggravate the problem to recreate > the oops quite quickly. If I do lots of overlapped SG_IO ioctls while > also doing heavy disk I/O, I can recreate the oops within a few minutes, > although I have also seen the problem under very little load. I have > seen the problem using both the ipr and sym2 drivers. -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center