Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1

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On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 01:37:13AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >The NULL EIP is desc->handle_irq in do_IRQ():
> >
> >        asm volatile(
> >            "       xchgl  %%ebx,%%esp      \n"
> >            "       call   *%%edi           \n"
> >            "       movl   %%ebx,%%esp      \n"
> >            : "=a" (arg1), "=d" (arg2), "=c" (arg3), "=b" (ebx)
> >            :  "0" (irq),   "1" (desc),  "2" (regs),  "3" (isp),
> >               "D" (desc->handle_irq)
> >            : "memory", "cc"
> >        );
> >
> >In my case, the IRQ is 0xdb = 219, which is an MSI interrupt for 
> >libata (the AHCI SATA controller, presumably).  The exception happens 
> >just after the SATA driver has probed all the hard disks.
> >
> >So it seems to me that the suspects are 1) sata, or 2) MSI.  I'll try 
> >turning off MSI to see if it helps.
> 
> Yes, that fixed it; with MSI disabled I can boot successfully.
> 
> : ezr:pts/0; cd hg/linux-2.6/patches/broken-out/
> : ezr:pts/0; ls *msi* | wc -l
> 23
> 
> Hm, where to start...

There are 9 MSI patches in my tree that you can just remove.  They were
just recently (a few hours ago) replaced with a total rewrite due to a
number of different problems that were found.  So I'd suggest just
waiting till the next -mm release to see if it works properly or not.

thanks,

greg k-h

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