While doing a binary search for a buggy patch (it was gregkh-pci-x86-pci-domain-support-the-meat.patch, reported on linux-kernel), I hit the below. PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:10.0 PIIX4: device not capable of full native PCI mode PIIX4: device disabled (BIOS) PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:10.0 PIIX4: device not capable of full native PCI mode PIIX4: device disabled (BIOS) hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 120064896 sectors (61473 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) hda: cache flushes notsupported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A]: no GSI - using IRQ 11 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0 <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs 0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message CDB: 0x12 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x24 0x0 0:0:0:0: Command already completed aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2002 0:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message CDB: 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:293! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 1 EIP: 0060:[<c0120388>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.15) EIP is at mod_timer+0x21/0x2b eax: c36e3d18 ebx: c3efde00 ecx: c3f38068 edx: ffff04b2 esi: c3609800 edi: c3f00080 ebp: c3621e5c esp: c3621e5c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process scsi_eh_0 (pid: 817, threadinfo=c3620000 task=c3cc2550) Stack: c3621eb4 c02791ed 00000001 00000246 00000000 c3efde98 c3cbd800 c3cbd800 c3cbd900 c3f38068 00000071 00000007 00000000 c3620001 00000000 00000000 00000041 00000001 41607c00 c3efde00 00000071 000003e8 c3621ecc c027fd70 Call Trace: [<c01036c5>] show_stack+0x6e/0x88 [<c01037fa>] show_registers+0x104/0x15c [<c01039b2>] die+0xe9/0x166 [<c0103ac1>] do_trap+0x92/0x94 [<c0103d14>] do_invalid_op+0x95/0x9c [<c01033cf>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 [<c02791ed>] ahc_handle_seqint+0x1324/0x13eb [<c027fd70>] ahc_pause_and_flushwork+0x3c6/0x441 [<c028ac5f>] ahc_linux_queue_recovery_cmd+0x247/0x84d [<c028892f>] ahc_linux_abort+0xe/0x2a [<c026cb61>] scsi_send_eh_cmnd+0xba/0xd2 [<c026ce19>] scsi_eh_tur+0x80/0xbd [<c026ceb8>] scsi_eh_abort_cmds+0x62/0x72 [<c026d79f>] scsi_unjam_host+0x85/0x97 [<c026d81e>] scsi_error_handler+0x6d/0x91 [<c012a1e9>] kthread+0x9f/0xa4 [<c0100f01>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 0f 0b 08 01 d1 5f 35 c0 eb d3 55 89 e5 83 78 0c 00 74 18 39 50 08 74 07 e I don't think the PCI domain patch is the cause of this - it's just the thing which cause the abort handler to run. I'd be suspecting that the aix7xxx abort handling is bust. I seem to recall seeing someone else report this a month or so ago? - : 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