On Fri, May 18 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:33 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, May 17 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > .. > > > > > > > > > > > > Ah ok, you need the updated patch series for ppc64 support. Builds > > > > > > fine > > > > > > here on ppc64. See the #sglist branch of the block repo: > > > > > > > > > > > > git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block.git > > > > > > > > > > > > I can mail you an updated patch, if you want. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Here is the whole panic stack.. > > > > > > > > Thanks will fix that up, the IDE part is totally untested. Can you try > > > > and backout this patch and see if it boots? > > > > > > Yes. It boots fine with following backed out. > > > > > > Looking at the code ide_probe.c: hwif_init() is doing > > > > > > hwif->sg_table = kmalloc(sizeof(struct > > > scatterlist)*hwif->sg_max_nents, > > > GFP_KERNEL); > > > > > > blk_rq_map_sg() is looking for the chaining info and going over end of the > > > allocation. > > > > Hmm, looks ok, I'm guessing it's just missing a memset (or just turn it > > into a kzalloc())? > > > > Even with backing out all the ide changes, I get this on boot > once in a while.
Yep, I think the ide changes are fine as such, the problem is the missing memset/kzalloc. Can you try that? -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/