Hi I get the following oops when trying to boot a arch/powerpc kernel with preempt-rt installed (v2.6.25.4-rt1) The board is using a Freescale 8280 as the main CPU and a Silicon Image SII3124 SATA controller. The oops seems to happen on fileaccess right after init starts. I need ideas what to look for. Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k init INIT: version 2.85 booting Activating all swap files/partitions... [ OK ] Mounting proc file system... [ OK ] path=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] PREEMPT Innovative Systems ApMax Modules linked in: NIP: c0249618 LR: c02495ec CTR: 00000000 REGS: ef29d550 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.25.4-rt1) MSR: 00021032 <ME,IR,DR> CR: 24044482 XER: 00000000 TASK = ef26d070[50] 'ldconfig' THREAD: ef29c000 GPR00: 00000001 ef29d600 ef26d070 00000000 11111111 00000000 ef29d64c 0000008c GPR08: ef29d628 00000000 ef29d630 ef29c000 00000000 100b5eec 00000000 100b0000 GPR16: c00c3304 ef29dc48 0000000c 00000000 00000014 00000000 00000001 ef3818c0 GPR24: ef8a4000 00000011 00000000 c01bc3c4 ef29d698 ef381904 00009032 c0354700 NIP [c0249618] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x9c/0x200 LR [c02495ec] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x70/0x200 Call Trace: [ef29d600] [c02495ec] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x70/0x200 (unreliable) [ef29d670] [c00277d0] lock_timer_base+0x2c/0x64 [ef29d690] [c00285e8] del_timer+0x2c/0x78 [ef29d6b0] [c019d108] scsi_delete_timer+0x1c/0x3c [ef29d6d0] [c01992d0] scsi_done+0x18/0x4c [ef29d6f0] [c01b19dc] ata_scsi_qc_complete+0x364/0x380 [ef29d720] [c01a8708] __ata_qc_complete+0xd8/0xec [ef29d740] [c01b011c] ata_qc_complete_multiple+0xc4/0xec [ef29d760] [c01bcaf4] sil24_interrupt+0x46c/0x52c [ef29d7a0] [c0048954] handle_IRQ_event+0x64/0x100 [ef29d7d0] [c0048b30] __do_IRQ+0x140/0x1bc [ef29d7f0] [c00166c4] apmax_int_irq_demux+0x8c/0xb0 [ef29d810] [c0006448] do_IRQ+0x68/0xa8 [ef29d820] [c0010388] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14 --- Exception: 501 at __spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x4c LR = __spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x4c [ef29d8f0] [c0249600] rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x84/0x200 [ef29d960] [c00277d0] lock_timer_base+0x2c/0x64 [ef29d980] [c002790c] __mod_timer+0x34/0xdc [ef29d9b0] [c0154650] blk_plug_device+0x58/0x68 [ef29d9c0] [c0154db0] __make_request+0x2dc/0x34c [ef29da00] [c0153aa4] generic_make_request+0x20c/0x238 [ef29da40] [c01550a8] submit_bio+0x124/0x138 [ef29da80] [c009a490] submit_bh+0x13c/0x174 [ef29daa0] [c009df9c] __bread+0xa4/0x100 [ef29dab0] [c00c2478] ext3_get_branch+0x78/0xfc [ef29dae0] [c00c27dc] ext3_get_blocks_handle+0x94/0x9cc [ef29dba0] [c00c3398] ext3_get_block+0x94/0xdc [ef29dbd0] [c00a458c] do_mpage_readpage+0x1a4/0x63c [ef29dc40] [c00a4b58] mpage_readpages+0xc4/0x11c [ef29dd20] [c00c269c] ext3_readpages+0x24/0x34 [ef29dd30] [c00572e4] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x1a0/0x258 [ef29dd70] [c00512bc] filemap_fault+0x198/0x41c [ef29ddb0] [c005d934] __do_fault+0x6c/0x804 [ef29de10] [c0012420] do_page_fault+0x338/0x4b4 [ef29df40] [c0010120] handle_page_fault+0xc/0x80 -- 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