On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:31:47AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Wu Fengguang <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > My server occasionally crashes on boot time, this has been happening in many > > recent kernel versions(at least from 2.6.14-rcx). It is rare enough, I setup > > netconsole and rebooted numerous times, but still failed to catch it. Luckily > > it happened again this time, and does not panic. Here is the logs. > > > > Thanks, > > Wu > > > > Error messages: > > [4294676.927000] scheduling while atomic: ksoftirqd/0/0x00000200/3 > > Which device driver are you using? > > This is just a warning - it won't necessarily cause a crash and in this > case it didn't appear to do so. I'm compiling in CONFIG_MEGARAID_NEWGEN=y CONFIG_MEGARAID_MM=y CONFIG_MEGARAID_MAILBOX=y Here is the boot message, notice that the error message appears immediately after the megaraid messages: [4294674.139000] megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005) [4294674.139000] megaraid: 2.20.4.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 07 12:27:22 EST 2005) [4294674.139000] megaraid: probe new device 0x1028:0x000f:0x1028:0x014a: bus 4:slot 3:func 0 [4294674.140000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 [4294674.144000] megaraid: fw version:[412W] bios version:[H406] [4294674.145000] scsi0 : LSI Logic MegaRAID driver [4294674.145000] scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 0 [Phy 0] for non-raid devices [4294674.914000] Vendor: PE/PV Model: 1x3 SCSI BP Rev: 1.1 [4294674.915000] Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 [4294676.927000] scheduling while atomic: ksoftirqd/0/0x00000200/3 # lsmod Module Size Used by nfsd 234180 8 exportfs 6688 1 nfsd lockd 65192 2 nfsd nfs_acl 4224 1 nfsd sunrpc 154460 3 nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl ipx 32292 0 p8023 2272 1 ipx af_packet 23528 4 ipt_TOS 2688 4 iptable_mangle 3136 1 iptable_nat 8004 0 iptable_filter 3296 0 ip_tables 23092 4 ipt_TOS,iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter ip_nat_tftp 2112 0 ip_conntrack_tftp 4504 1 ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_ftp 3552 0 ip_nat 19820 3 iptable_nat,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_ftp 7824 1 ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack 51192 6 iptable_nat,ip_nat_tftp,ip_conntrack_tftp,ip_nat_ftp,ip_nat,ip_conntrack_ftp serverworks 9192 0 [permanent] generic 4900 0 [permanent] reiserfs 232560 7 ipv6 270144 46 tun 12160 0 rtc 13876 0 floppy 63204 0 pcspkr 2436 0 i2c_piix4 9360 0 i2c_core 22144 1 i2c_piix4 sworks_agp 9568 0 agpgart 35224 1 sworks_agp ohci_hcd 21348 0 usbcore 129860 2 ohci_hcd tsdev 8000 0 dm_mod 61208 8 ipmi_devintf 8872 0 ipmi_watchdog 19296 0 ipmi_si 35972 1 ipmi_msghandler 31712 3 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_watchdog,ipmi_si psmouse 41444 0 loop 17352 0 sr_mod 17156 0 evdev 10016 0 mousedev 12112 1 unix 29648 43 > I seem to recall diagnosing this exact locking problem a month or so ago, > and cc'ing linux-scsi on that analysis. I find it, thank you. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=112737270900397&w=2 Wu - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html