Hi, with 2.6.39-rc1/2 I realized and oops in one of our bonding tests. The test is: 1) enslave netdevice to a bond 2) close the netdevcie 3) hot unplug the netdevice <1>[27649.970474] Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null) <4>[27649.970477] Oops: 0004 [#1] SMP <4>[27649.970479] Modules linked in: bonding sunrpc qeth_l2 qeth_l3 binfmt_misc dm_multipath scsi_dh dm_mod ipv6 lcs qeth c cwgroup [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] <4>[27649.970488] CPU: 0 Tainted: G W 2.6.39-rc2.48.x.20110407-s390xgit #1 <4>[27649.970490] Process kworker/u:1 (pid: 25, task: 000000007ec4c838, ksp: 000000007ec535a8) <4>[27649.970493] Krnl PSW : 0704100180000000 000000000055444e (klist_put+0x46/0xd4) <4>[27649.970498] R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3 <4>[27649.970501] Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000410 07000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 <4>[27649.970504] 00000000003e57c6 0000000000000001 000000007bac3d30 000000007bad5005 <4>[27649.970507] 000000007a2bb000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 <4>[27649.970509] 000000007d3f2c28 00000000005c1230 000000007ec53a98 000000007ec53a58 <4>[27649.970518] Krnl Code: 0000000000554440: 5710d000 x %r1,0(%r13) <4>[27649.970521] 0000000000554444: e3b090200004 lg %r11,32(%r9) <4>[27649.970524] 000000000055444a: a7280000 lhi %r2,0 <4>[27649.970528] >000000000055444e: ba219000 cs %r2,%r1,0(%r9) <4>[27649.970531] 0000000000554452: 1222 ltr %r2,%r2 <4>[27649.970534] 0000000000554454: a774003c brc 7,5544cc <4>[27649.970537] 0000000000554458: b90200aa ltgr %r10,%r10 <4>[27649.970540] 000000000055445c: a784000e brc 8,554478 <4>[27649.970542] Call Trace: <4>[27649.970543] ([<000000000058a848>] bin_vm_ops+0x28/0xe8) <4>[27649.970548] [<00000000003e57de>] device_del+0x7e/0x1d0 <4>[27649.970551] [<00000000004af858>] rollback_registered_many+0x1ac/0x268 <4>[27649.970554] [<00000000004af9f2>] rollback_registered+0x52/0x74 <4>[27649.970556] [<00000000004afa9e>] unregister_netdevice_queue+0x8a/0xe0 <4>[27649.970559] [<00000000004afc40>] unregister_netdev+0x34/0x40 <4>[27649.970562] [<000003c001a74cfc>] qeth_l2_remove_device+0xf8/0x120 [qeth_l2] <4>[27649.970566] [<000003c003d87040>] qeth_core_remove_device+0x94/0x180 [qeth] <4>[27649.970572] [<000003c00124c83e>] ccwgroup_remove+0x66/0x74 [ccwgroup] <4>[27649.970575] [<00000000003e8d24>] __device_release_driver+0x7c/0xec <4>[27649.970578] [<00000000003e8dcc>] device_release_driver+0x38/0x48 <4>[27649.970581] [<00000000003e87ee>] bus_remove_device+0xca/0xf4 <4>[27649.970584] [<00000000003e58b0>] device_del+0x150/0x1d0 <4>[27649.970587] [<00000000003e5956>] device_unregister+0x26/0x38 <4>[27649.970589] [<000003c00124c7bc>] ccwgroup_ungroup_callback+0x5c/0x78 [ccwgroup] <4>[27649.970592] [<00000000002a3ca0>] sysfs_schedule_callback_work+0x38/0xa8 <4>[27649.970595] [<000000000015d1c6>] process_one_work+0x176/0x428 <4>[27649.970598] [<0000000000160ec2>] worker_thread+0x17a/0x398 <4>[27649.970601] [<0000000000166e2a>] kthread+0xa6/0xb0 <4>[27649.970603] [<00000000005614de>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc <4>[27649.970606] [<00000000005614d8>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc <4>[27649.970609] Last Breaking-Event-Address: <4>[27649.970610] [<0000000000554538>] klist_del+0x4/0xc <4>[27649.970613] <0>[27649.970614] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops <4>[27649.970617] CPU: 0 Tainted: G D W 2.6.39-rc2.48.x.20110407-s390xgit #1 <4>[27649.970619] Process kworker/u:1 (pid: 25, task: 000000007ec4c838, ksp: 000000007ec535a8) <4>[27649.970622] 000000007ec53700 000000007ec53680 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 <4>[27649.970625] 000000007ec53720 000000007ec53698 000000007ec53698 000000000055ddae <4>[27649.970629] 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 000000007bad5005 0000000000100ebe <4>[27649.970632] 000000000000000d 000000000000000c 000000007ec536e8 0000000000000000 <4>[27649.970636] 0000000000000000 0000000000100a00 000000007ec53680 000000007ec536c0 <4>[27649.970640] Call Trace: <4>[27649.970641] ([<0000000000882408>] die_lock+0x0/0x4) I bisect the problem down to 2.6.38 development. Commit introduced the problem is: commit 443457242beb6716b43db4d62fe148eab5515505 Author: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Dec 13 12:44:07 2010 +0000 net: factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many Add dev_close_many and dev_deactivate_many to factorize another sync-rcu operation on the netdevice unregister path. $ modprobe dummy numdummies=10000 $ ip link set dev dummy* up $ time rmmod dummy Without the patch With the patch real 0m 24.63s real 0m 5.15s user 0m 0.00s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 6.05s sys 0m 5.14s I don't know if this commit is bad or if it exposes a problem in the bonding code. Without bonding I'm not able to reproduce the problem. Can anybody help? Thanks, Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html