This is with Michael Neuling's subpage_protection fix, using my legacy .config DEBUG_SLAB configured. boot: linus Using 0084e28a bytes for initrd buffer Please wait, loading kernel... Allocated 00f00000 bytes for kernel @ 01e00000 Elf64 kernel loaded... Loading ramdisk... ramdisk loaded 0084e28a @ 02d00000 OF stdout device is: /vdevice/vty@30000000 Preparing to boot Linux version 2.6.37-rc2-5-ppc64 (jimk@elm3b90) (gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #9 SMP Wed Nov 17 18:17:23 PST 2010 Max number of cores passed to firmware: 512 (NR_CPUS = 1024) Calling ibm,client-architecture-support... not implemented command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SIBM_ST373453LC_3HW1CQ1400007445Q2A4-part3 quiet profile=2 sysrq=1 insmod=sym53c8xx insmod=ipr crashkernel=256M-:128M loglevel=8 memory layout at init: memory_limit : 0000000000000000 (16 MB aligned) alloc_bottom : 0000000003550000 alloc_top : 0000000008000000 alloc_top_hi : 0000000070000000 amo_top : 0000000008000000 ram_top : 0000000070000000 instantiating rtas at 0x00000000076a0000... done boot cpu hw idx 0 starting cpu hw idx 2... done copying OF device tree... Building dt strings... Building dt structure... Device tree strings 0x0000000003560000 -> 0x000000000356129c Device tree struct 0x0000000003570000 -> 0x0000000003580000 Calling quiesce... returning from prom_init Crash kernel location must be 0x2000000 Reserving 128MB of memory at 32MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 1792MB) Phyp-dump not supported on this hardware Allocated 655360 bytes for 1024 pacas at c000000001f30000 Using pSeries machine description Page orders: linear mapping = 24, virtual = 12, io = 12 Found initrd at 0xc000000002d00000:0xc00000000354e28a bootconsole [udbg0] enabled Partition configured for 4 cpus. CPU maps initialized for 2 threads per core (thread shift is 1) Freed 589824 bytes for unused pacas Starting Linux PPC64 #9 SMP Wed Nov 17 18:17:23 PST 2010 ----------------------------------------------------- ppc64_pft_size = 0x19 physicalMemorySize = 0x70000000 htab_hash_mask = 0x3ffff ----------------------------------------------------- Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Linux version 2.6.37-rc2-5-ppc64 (jimk@elm3b90) (gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #9 SMP Wed Nov 17 18:17:23 PST 2010 [boot]0012 Setup Arch Node 0 Memory: 0x0-0x70000000 PCI host bridge /pci@800000020000002 ranges: IO 0x000003fe00200000..0x000003fe002fffff -> 0x0000000000000000 MEM 0x0000040080000000..0x00000400bfffffff -> 0x00000000c0000000 PCI host bridge /pci@800000020000003 ranges: IO 0x000003fe00700000..0x000003fe007fffff -> 0x0000000000000000 MEM 0x00000401c0000000..0x00000401ffffffff -> 0x00000000c0000000 EEH: PCI Enhanced I/O Error Handling Enabled PPC64 nvram contains 7168 bytes Using dedicated idle loop Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00007000 Normal empty Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00007000 On node 0 totalpages: 28672 DMA zone: 25 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 28647 pages, LIFO batch:1 [boot]0015 Setup Done PERCPU: Embedded 1 pages/cpu @c000000000f00000 s23424 r0 d42112 u262144 pcpu-alloc: s23424 r0 d42112 u262144 alloc=1*1048576 pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 1 2 3 Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 28647 Policy zone: DMA Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SIBM_ST373453LC_3HW1CQ1400007445Q2A4-part3 quiet profile=2 sysrq=1 insmod=sym53c8xx insmod=ipr crashkernel=256M-:128M loglevel=8 kernel profiling enabled (shift: 2) PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: -1, 32768 bytes) freeing bootmem node 0 Memory: 1681088k/1835008k available (8192k kernel code, 153920k reserved, 1536k data, 4447k bss, 512k init) Hierarchical RCU implementation. RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs is disabled. NR_IRQS:512 [boot]0020 XICS Init [boot]0021 XICS Done pic: no ISA interrupt controller time_init: decrementer frequency = 207.054000 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 1654.344000 MHz clocksource: timebase mult[135191e] shift[22] registered clockevent: decrementer mult[35017dae] shift[32] cpu[0] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 console [hvc0] enabled, bootconsole disabled console [hvc0] enabled, bootconsole disabled allocated 1146880 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 Security Framework initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 5, 2097152 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 4, 1048576 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 Initializing cgroup subsys ns ns_cgroup deprecated: consider using the 'clone_children' flag without the ns_cgroup. Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct Initializing cgroup subsys memory Initializing cgroup subsys devices Initializing cgroup subsys freezer irq: irq 2 on host null mapped to virtual irq 16 Brought up 4 CPUs Node 0 CPUs: 0-3 NET: Registered protocol family 16 IBM eBus Device Driver POWER5 performance monitor hardware support registered PCI: Probing PCI hardware IOMMU table initialized, virtual merging enabled pci 0000:c0:01.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold pci 0000:c0:01.0: PME# disabled pci 0000:c0:01.1: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold pci 0000:c0:01.1: PME# disabled irq: irq 115 on host null mapped to virtual irq 115 irq: irq 116 on host null mapped to virtual irq 116 pci 0001:cc:01.0: supports D1 irq: irq 150 on host null mapped to virtual irq 150 irq: irq 151 on host null mapped to virtual irq 151 PCI: Probing PCI hardware done bio: create slab at 0 vgaarb: loaded usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb Switching to clocksource timebase NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 1, 131072 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 65536 (order: 4, 1048576 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 4, 1048576 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 65536 bind 65536) TCP reno registered UDP hash table entries: 2048 (order: 0, 65536 bytes) UDP-Lite hash table entries: 2048 (order: 0, 65536 bytes) NET: Registered protocol family 1 PCI: CLS 128 bytes, default 128 Unpacking initramfs... Initramfs unpacking failed: read error RTAS daemon started irq: irq 655360 on host null mapped to virtual irq 17 irq: irq 589825 on host null mapped to virtual irq 18 audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) type=2000 audit(1290100141.460:1): initialized HugeTLB registered 16 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 0, 65536 bytes) msgmni has been set to 3284 Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 rpaphp: RPA HOT Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.1 rpaphp: Slot [U787A.001.DNZ00XZ-P1-C1] registered vio_register_driver: driver hvc_console registering HVSI: registered 0 devices Generic RTC Driver v1.07 Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt ) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver ide-gd driver 1.18 ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Nov 17 2010 usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid usbhid: USB HID core driver TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 15 registered taskstats version 1 md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. VFS: Cannot open root device "disk/by-id/scsi-SIBM_ST373453LC_3HW1CQ1400007445Q2A4-part3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Call Trace: [c00000006e78fc30] [c000000000011218] .show_stack+0x6c/0x16c (unreliable) [c00000006e78fce0] [c00000000054b204] .panic+0x9c/0x200 [c00000006e78fd80] [c000000000781354] .mount_block_root+0x2dc/0x318 [c00000006e78fe50] [c00000000078159c] .prepare_namespace+0x184/0x1cc [c00000006e78fee0] [c000000000780554] .kernel_init+0x2e4/0x310 [c00000006e78ff90] [c00000000002985c] .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70 Rebooting in 180 seconds..