On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Andre Noll wrote: > On 10:26, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > > You are loading some stale firmware that's left over on the card -- > > I'm not even sure what 4.00.70 is, as the latest release firmware is > > 4.00.27. > > That's the firmware which came with the card. Anyway, I just upgraded > the firmware, but the bug remains. The backtrace differs a bit though > as now the tg3 network driver seems to be involved as well. > > Thanks for your help > Andre ... > [ 68.532665] BUG: at kernel/lockdep.c:1860 trace_hardirqs_on() > [ 68.532784] > [ 68.532785] Call Trace: > [ 68.532979] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8024b877>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xd7/0x180 > [ 68.533168] [<ffffffff80511f5b>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x40 > [ 68.533295] [<ffffffff88032747>] :qla2xxx:qla2x00_process_completed_request+0x137/0x1d0 > [ 68.533457] [<ffffffff88032862>] :qla2xxx:qla2x00_status_entry+0x82/0xa40 > [ 68.533577] [<ffffffff8024b17f>] __lock_acquire+0xcdf/0xd90 > [ 68.533693] [<ffffffff80511ff2>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x42/0x60 > [ 68.533816] [<ffffffff880343fe>] :qla2xxx:qla24xx_intr_handler+0x4e/0x2b0 > [ 68.533942] [<ffffffff88033551>] :qla2xxx:qla24xx_process_response_queue+0xc1/0x1c0 > [ 68.534102] [<ffffffff88034584>] :qla2xxx:qla24xx_intr_handler+0x1d4/0x2b0 Ok, since 2.6.20, there been a patch added to qla2xxx which drops the spin_unlock_irq() call while attempting to ramp-up the queue-depth: commit befede3dabd204e9c546cbfbe391b29286c57da2 Author: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 9 11:37:52 2007 -0800 [SCSI] qla2xxx: correct locking while call starget_for_each_device() Removed spin_unlock_irq()/spin_lock_irq() pairs surrounding starget_for_each_device() calls. As Matthew W. pointed out, starget_for_each_device() can be called under a spinlock being held. The change has been tested and verified on qla2xxx.ko module. Thanks Matthew W. and Hisashi H. for help. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <Andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Seokmann Ju <Seokmann.ju@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=116837234904583&w=2 Could you try the latest 2.6.21-rc which contains the correction? Regards, Andrew Vasquez - To unsubscribe from this list: 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