eHEA driver fails to initialize on a power6 box while booting 20091125 next(f3645ca..). Following are the messages which gets logged during failure. Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x409d0148e8e40018 Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000003c0cc Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: fuse loop dm_mod sr_mod cdrom ehea sg sd_mod crc_t10dif ibmvscsic scsi_transport_srp scsi_tgt scsi_mod NIP: c00000000003c0cc LR: c00000000003ce50 CTR: 0000000000091b94 REGS: c00000000cade820 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.32-rc8-autotest-next-20091125) MSR: 8000000000001032 <ME,IR,DR> CR: 28020424 XER: 00000020 DAR: 409d0148e8e40018, DSISR: 0000000040000000 TASK = c00000000c818d60[1683] 'ip' THREAD: c00000000cadc000 CPU: 1 GPR00: 0000000000000010 c00000000cadeaa0 c000000000b28340 409d0148e8e40008 GPR04: d00008008000f040 c00000000cadeb20 0000000000001000 0000000000000000 GPR08: 000000000000001c c0000000018c0398 0000000000000000 c000000000bc0000 GPR12: 8000000000009032 c000000000bc2880 00000000ffffffff ffffffffffffffff GPR16: 00000000203c8fc0 c00000000cadf4a8 c00000000cadf450 c00000000e4c0000 GPR20: 0000000000000300 0000000000000201 c000000000c68590 c000000000bc0000 GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000e5f87e 0000000000000001 c000000009920000 GPR28: 0000000000000000 d00008008000f040 0000000000000000 c000000000a63328 NIP [c00000000003c0cc] .subpage_protection+0x48/0x8c LR [c00000000003ce50] .hash_page+0x3e0/0x45c Call Trace: [c00000000cadeaa0] [00000000ffffffff] 0xffffffff (unreliable) [c00000000cadeb90] [c0000000000055d0] .do_hash_page+0x50/0x6c --- Exception: 301 at .ehea_create_cq+0x234/0x2bc [ehea] LR = .ehea_create_cq+0x1c0/0x2bc [ehea] [c00000000cadef40] [d0000000015e46fc] .ehea_init_port_res+0xb4/0x47c [ehea] [c00000000cadf000] [d0000000015e4bd8] .ehea_up+0x114/0x6bc [ehea] [c00000000cadf110] [d0000000015e51e0] .ehea_open+0x60/0x114 [ehea] [c00000000cadf1b0] [c000000000542e7c] .dev_open+0x11c/0x19c [c00000000cadf240] [c000000000541e7c] .dev_change_flags+0x10c/0x214 [c00000000cadf2e0] [c00000000054e0f8] .do_setlink+0x304/0x41c [c00000000cadf3c0] [c00000000054f324] .rtnl_newlink+0x388/0x600 [c00000000cadf5d0] [c00000000054ef50] .rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x260/0x2ac [c00000000cadf680] [c000000000568104] .netlink_rcv_skb+0x74/0x108 [c00000000cadf710] [c00000000054eccc] .rtnetlink_rcv+0x34/0x58 [c00000000cadf7a0] [c000000000567bfc] .netlink_unicast+0x32c/0x408 [c00000000cadf870] [c0000000005688d8] .netlink_sendmsg+0x2d0/0x310 [c00000000cadf950] [c000000000529c9c] .sock_sendmsg+0xe0/0x11c [c00000000cadfb50] [c000000000529fc8] .SyS_sendmsg+0x1f4/0x288 [c00000000cadfd70] [c000000000527f88] .SyS_socketcall+0x214/0x280 [c00000000cadfe30] [c0000000000085b4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 Instruction dump: 78000020 7fa40040 409d0020 7889aae0 39290072 79291f24 7d2b4a14 e8690010 2fa30000 419e0048 788014e2 78001f24 <7c63002a> 2fa30000 419e0034 788084a2 ---[ end trace cacb4bbddb53f7bd ]--- Thanks -Sachin -- --------------------------------- Sachin Sant IBM Linux Technology Center India Systems and Technology Labs Bangalore, India --------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html