Jeff Garzik wrote: > Kamalesh Babulal wrote: >> Hi Stephen, >> >> The next-20080410 kernel panics while bootup over the PowerMac G5 box, while >> loading the ATA driver. > > IDE driver, you mean. > > >> [ 3.704000] NIP [c0000000000222a8] ._insw_ns+0x10/0x30 >> [ 3.704000] LR [c00000000021cd10] .ata_input_data+0x1f4/0x264 >> [ 3.704000] Call Trace: > >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760db3b0] [c00000000021fc34] .try_to_identify+0x298/0x690 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760db470] [c000000000220168] .do_probe+0x13c/0x2f0 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760db510] [c00000000022059c] .ide_probe_port+0x280/0x670 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760db5e0] [c000000000220d84] .ide_device_add_all+0x2f8/0x670 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760db690] [c000000000221160] .ide_device_add+0x64/0x74 > >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760db930] [c00000000019241c] .pci_device_probe+0x10c/0x184 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760db9e0] [c0000000002068ac] .driver_probe_device+0x120/0x1e4 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760dba70] [c0000000002069d0] .__driver_attach+0x60/0xa4 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760dbb00] [c0000000002050e8] .bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xcc >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760dbbb0] [c000000000206388] .driver_attach+0x28/0x40 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760dbc30] [c000000000206154] .bus_add_driver+0xd4/0x274 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760dbcd0] [c000000000206f04] .driver_register+0x90/0x14c >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760dbd70] [c000000000191c80] .__pci_register_driver+0x68/0xc8 >> [ 3.704000] [c0000002760dbe10] [c0000000003ccfb8] .pmac_ide_probe+0x48/0x94 > > Regards, > > Jeff Hi Jeff, Looking at the boot log before the kernel oops, I suspected it to be the ide driver causing the kernel oops, I am trying reproduce the crash with debug info compiled into the kernel. [ 2.236136] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver [ 2.248211] ide-pmac 0001:03:0d.0: enabling device (0014 -> 0016) [ 3.284006] ide0: Found Apple K2 ATA-6 controller, bus ID 3, irq 39 [ 3.700012] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xa0001000822fa000 [ 3.704000] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000222a8 [ 3.704000] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [ 3.704000] SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PowerMac -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html