Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: >>>> Nish Aravamudan wrote: >>>>> On 2/7/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >>>>>> On Thursday 07 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: >>>>>>> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: >>>>>>>>> On Wed 2008-02-06 11:53:34, Pavel Machek wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hi! >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Trying to boot 2.6.25-git0 (few days old), I get >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff..ffb0 >>>>>>>>>> IP at init_irq+0x42e >>>>>>>> init_irq? hmm... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Call trace: >>>>>>>>>> ide_device_add_all >>>>>>>> this comes from ide-generic >>>>>>>> (Generic IDE host driver) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> ide_generic_init >>>>>>>>>> kernel_init >>>>>>>>>> child_rip >>>>>>>>>> vgacon_cursor >>>>>>>>>> kernel_init >>>>>>>>>> child_rip >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Excerpt from config: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> CONFIG_IDE=y >>>>>>>>>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y >>>>>>>>> Disabling CONFIG_IDE made my machine boot, as it was using libata >>>>>>>>> anyway. >>>>>>>> Kamalesh/Pavel: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Could you try latest git and see if the OOPS is still there? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> [ Yeah, I'm unable to reproduce it. :( ] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Bart >>>>>>> Hi Bart, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The panic is reproducible with the 2.6.24-git16 kernel, the call trace is >>>>>>> similar to the previous one >>>>>> Thanks, I again reviewed ide-probe.c changes but nothing seems wrong... >>>>>> >>>>>> Could you please bisect it down to the guilty commit? >>>>> Kamalesh, were you able to bisect this down? I just got hit by the >>>>> same panic on a 4-way x86_64, with 2.6.24-git22. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Nish >>>> Hi Nish, >>>> >>>> I tried bisecting and the guilty patch seems to be >>>> >>>> 36501650ec45b1db308c3b51886044863be2d762 is first bad commit >>>> commit 36501650ec45b1db308c3b51886044863be2d762 >>>> Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz >>>> Date: Fri Feb 1 23:09:31 2008 +0100 >>>> >>>> ide: keep pointer to struct device instead of struct pci_dev in ide_hwif_t >>>> >>>> >>>> the gdb output, also points to the changes made by the guilty patch >>>> >>>> (gdb) p ide_device_add_all >>>> $1 = {int (u8 *, const struct ide_port_info *)} 0xffffffff804176ac >>>> (gdb) p/x 0xffffffff804176ac+0xb60 >>>> $2 = 0xffffffff8041820c >>>> (gdb) l *0xffffffff8041820c >>>> 0xffffffff8041820c is in ide_device_add_all (drivers/ide/ide-probe.c:1249). >>>> 1244 goto out; >>>> 1245 } >>>> 1246 >>>> 1247 sg_init_table(hwif->sg_table, hwif->sg_max_nents); >>>> 1248 >>>> 1249 if (init_irq(hwif) == 0) >>>> 1250 goto done; >>>> 1251 >>>> 1252 old_irq = hwif->irq; >>>> 1253 /* >>>> (gdb) >>>> >>>> >>>> (gdb) p init_irq >>>> $1 = {int (ide_hwif_t *)} 0xffffffff8041721f >>>> (gdb) p/x 0xffffffff8041721f+0x1a4 >>>> $2 = 0xffffffff804173c3 >>>> (gdb) l *0xffffffff804173c3 >>>> 0xffffffff804173c3 is in init_irq (include/asm/pci.h:101). >>>> 96 /* Returns the node based on pci bus */ >>>> 97 static inline int __pcibus_to_node(struct pci_bus *bus) >>>> 98 { >>>> 99 struct pci_sysdata *sd = bus->sysdata; >>>> 100 >>>> 101 return sd->node; >>>> 102 } >>>> 103 >>>> 104 static inline cpumask_t __pcibus_to_cpumask(struct pci_bus *bus) >>>> 105 { >>>> (gdb) >>> Thanks for the detailed analysis and sorry for the bug. >>> >>> I think that this may has been just fixed by Andi's recent hwif_to_node() >>> fix (patch below, it is in Linus' tree already), could please verify this? >>> >>> commit 1f07e988290fc45932f5028c9e2a862c37a57336 >>> Author: Andi Kleen >>> Date: Mon Feb 11 01:35:20 2008 +0100 >>> >>> Prevent IDE boot ops on NUMA system >>> >>> Without this patch a Opteron test system here oopses at boot with >>> current git. >>> >>> Calling to_pci_dev() on a NULL pointer gives a negative value so the >>> following NULL pointer check never triggers and then an illegal address >>> is referenced. Check the unadjusted original device pointer for NULL >>> instead. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen >>> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds >>> >>> diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h >>> index 23fad89..a3b69c1 100644 >>> --- a/include/linux/ide.h >>> +++ b/include/linux/ide.h >>> @@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@ static inline void ide_dump_identify(u8 *id) >>> static inline int hwif_to_node(ide_hwif_t *hwif) >>> { >>> struct pci_dev *dev = to_pci_dev(hwif->dev); >>> - return dev ? pcibus_to_node(dev->bus) : -1; >>> + return hwif->dev ? pcibus_to_node(dev->bus) : -1; >>> } >>> >>> static inline ide_drive_t *ide_get_paired_drive(ide_drive_t *drive) >> Hi Bart, >> Thanks !! the patch solves the kernel panic but when after applying the patch,kernel is not >> able to mount the filesystem and panics, am i not sure what is likely causing the panic. > > Is > > - the commit 36501650ec45b1db308c3b51886044863be2d762 with Andi's fix applied > > or > > - the commit f6fb786d6dcdd7d730e4fba620b071796f487e1b > (the one before commit 36501650ec45b1db308c3b51886044863be2d762) > > working for you? No, the commit before the commit 36501650ec45b1db308c3b51886044863be2d762 did not either work, i get the same kernel panic. > >> Creating root device. >> Mounting root filesystem. >> mount: could not find filesystem >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > Is IDE actually used for the boot device? > > [ Please send a dmesg output from the working system. ] > -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL.