I tested the current Linus tree + a few SuSE patches on a p710. There is some slab corruption. Will check if plain Linus tree gives the same... dmesg | grep -wiC9 slab sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sd 0:0:3:0: Attached scsi disk sda Slab corruption: start=c000000000431000, len=4096 d80: c0 00 00 00 00 43 1d 80 c0 00 00 00 00 43 1d 80 Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L036UCDY10-0 Rev: S28G Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 SCSI device sdb: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through SCSI device sdb: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off Page orders: linear mapping = 24, others = 12 Found initrd at 0xc000000002400000:0xc0000000026e7000 Partition configured for 4 cpus. Starting Linux PPC64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 21:48:18 UTC 2006 ----------------------------------------------------- ppc64_pft_size = 0x1b ppc64_interrupt_controller = 0x2 platform = 0x101 physicalMemorySize = 0x1e8000000 ppc64_caches.dcache_line_size = 0x80 ppc64_caches.icache_line_size = 0x80 htab_address = 0x0000000000000000 htab_hash_mask = 0xfffff ----------------------------------------------------- [boot]0100 MM Init [boot]0100 MM Init Done Linux version 2.6.15-git12-20060116214818-ppc64 (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.0 20060109 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 21:48:18 UTC 2006 [boot]0012 Setup Arch Node 0 Memory: 0x0-0x1e8000000 EEH: PCI Enhanced I/O Error Handling Enabled PPC64 nvram contains 7168 bytes Using dedicated idle loop On node 0 totalpages: 1998848 DMA zone: 1998848 pages, LIFO batch:31 DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 [boot]0015 Setup Done Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdd3 quiet sysrq=1 xmon=on [boot]0020 XICS Init xics: no ISA interrupt controller [boot]0021 XICS Done PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 131072 bytes) time_init: decrementer frequency = 207.051000 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 1656.408000 MHz Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) freeing bootmem node 0 Memory: 7838780k/7995392k available (4304k kernel code, 156612k reserved, 1936k data, 836k bss, 252k init) Calibrating delay loop... 413.69 BogoMIPS (lpj=2068480) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 2972k freed Processor 1 found. Processor 2 found. Processor 3 found. Brought up 4 CPUs Node 0 CPUs: 0-3 migration_cost=1,0 NET: Registered protocol family 16 Installing base platform functions... All base functions installed PCI: Probing PCI hardware IOMMU table initialized, virtual merging enabled mapping IO 3fe00200000 -> d000080000000000, size: 100000 mapping IO 3fe00700000 -> d000080000100000, size: 100000 PCI: Probing PCI hardware done Registering pmac pic with sysfs... usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc hadi@xxxxxxxxxx) IBM eBus Device Driver probe_bus_pseries: processing c0000001e7ff9df0 RTAS daemon started RTAS: event: 1, Type: Platform Error, Severity: 2 probe_bus_pseries: processing c0000001e7ff9fb8 probe_bus_pseries: processing c0000001e7ffa100 probe_bus_pseries: processing c0000001e7ffa268 audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1137455211.949:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Initializing Cryptographic API io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered Using unsupported 640x480 display at 401f0000000, depth=8, pitch=640 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@800000020000003/pci@2,2/pci@1/display@0 vio_register_driver: driver hvc_console registering HVSI: registered 0 devices Generic RTC Driver v1.07 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 123456K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PDC20275: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:cc:01.0 PCI: Enabling device: (0000:cc:01.0), cmd 3 PDC20275: chipset revision 1 PDC20275: 100% native mode on irq 134 ide2: BM-DMA at 0xdec00-0xdec07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xdec08-0xdec0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio Probing IDE interface ide2... hde: IBM RMBO0020501, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide2 at 0xde400-0xde407,0xddc02 on irq 134 Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide3... PCI: Enabling device: (0000:c8:01.2), cmd 142 ehci_hcd 0000:c8:01.2: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:c8:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ehci_hcd 0000:c8:01.2: irq 133, io mem 0x400b0002000 ehci_hcd 0000:c8:01.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ohci_hcd 0000:c8:01.0: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:c8:01.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 ohci_hcd 0000:c8:01.0: irq 133, io mem 0x400b0001000 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected hub 2-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1 ohci_hcd 0000:c8:01.1: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:c8:01.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 ohci_hcd 0000:c8:01.1: irq 133, io mem 0x400b0000000 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected hub 3-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1 usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 oprofile: using ppc64/power5 performance monitoring. NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 524288 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536) TCP reno registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 NET: Registered protocol family 15 Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k freed SCSI subsystem initialized ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.1.1 (November 15, 2005) ipr 0000:d0:01.0: Found IOA with IRQ: 135 ipr 0000:d0:01.0: Starting IOA initialization sequence. ipr 0000:d0:01.0: Adapter firmware version: 020A0052 ipr 0000:d0:01.0: IOA initialized. scsi0 : IBM 570B Storage Adapter Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L036UCDY10-0 Rev: S28G Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 SCSI device sda: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sd 0:0:3:0: Attached scsi disk sda Slab corruption: start=c000000000431000, len=4096 d80: c0 00 00 00 00 43 1d 80 c0 00 00 00 00 43 1d 80 Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L036UCDY10-0 Rev: S28G Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 SCSI device sdb: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through SCSI device sdb: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 0:0:4:0: Attached scsi disk sdb Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L036UCDY10-0 Rev: S28G Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 SCSI device sdc: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sd 0:0:3:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sd 0:0:4:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through SCSI device sdc: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through sdc: sdc1 sd 0:0:5:0: Attached scsi disk sdc sd 0:0:5:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L036UCDY10-0 Rev: S28G Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 SCSI device sdd: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write through SCSI device sdd: 71096640 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write through sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3 sd 0:0:8:0: Attached scsi disk sdd sd 0:0:8:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Vendor: IBM Model: VSBPD4E2 U4SCSI Rev: 4142 Type: Enclosure ANSI SCSI revision: 02 0:0:15:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 13 scsi: unknown device type 31 Vendor: IBM Model: 570B001 Rev: 0150 Type: Unknown ANSI SCSI revision: 00 0:255:255:255: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 31 ReiserFS: sdd3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: sdd3: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: sdd3: journal params: device sdd3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: sdd3: checking transaction log (sdd3) ReiserFS: sdd3: Using r5 hash to sort names md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: considering sdc1 ... md: adding sdc1 ... md: adding sdb1 ... md: created md0 md: bind<sdb1> md: bind<sdc1> md: running: <sdc1><sdb1> md: kicking non-fresh sdc1 from array! md: unbind<sdc1> md: export_rdev(sdc1) device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx dm-netlink version 0.0.2 loaded md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 raid1: raid set md0 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors md: ... autorun DONE. hde: ATAPI 31X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 6.1.16-k2-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation. PCI: Enabling device: (0000:c0:01.0), cmd 143 Intel(R) PRO/10GbE Network Driver - version 1.0.100-k2-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation. e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection PCI: Enabling device: (0000:c0:01.1), cmd 143 e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection PCI: Enabling device: (0001:d8:01.0), cmd 143 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/10GbE Network Connection Adding 1050616k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1050616k Adding 2096472k swap on /dev/sdd2. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:2096472k ioctl32(hald-probe-inpu:3250): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(40084502){00} arg(ffbdb95a) on /dev/input/ts0 NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver subfs 0.9 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan - : 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