On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 04:59:43 +0900, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay, here's preliminary patch. I've tested it very lightly so it's > likely to contain bugs and definitely needs to be splitted. Cool. However, there's something fishy there (not sure whether it's in your patch or a latent bug in the ccw bus code that just has been uncovered): ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:607! illegal operation: 0001 [#1] CPU: 1 Not tainted Process kslowcrw (pid: 36, task: 0000000001a80cc0, ksp: 0000000001a87ce0) Krnl PSW : 0404000180000000 00000000000b21b0 (kfree+0x144/0x154) R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:0 PM:0 EA:3 Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000009836d8 000003fffd22ffe0 00000000000b20aa 0000000000396ba8 0000000001a6d100 0000000000986c88 0700000001a879d8 0000000000555428 000000000344a5b0 0000000001a879c8 000000000344a500 0000000000390ca8 00000000000b20aa 0000000001a879c8 Krnl Code: 00000000000b21a2: e392c0480024 stg %r9,72(%r2,%r12) 00000000000b21a8: a7f4ffc9 brc 15,1000b213a 00000000000b21ac: a7f40001 brc 15,b21ae >00000000000b21b0: a7f4ff9d brc 15,1000b20ea 00000000000b21b4: e33030100004 lg %r3,16(%r3) 00000000000b21ba: a7f4ff90 brc 15,1000b20da 00000000000b21be: 0707 bcr 0,%r7 00000000000b21c0: eb8ff0580024 stmg %r8,%r15,88(%r15) Call Trace: ([<00000000000b20aa>] kfree+0x3e/0x154) [<00000000001166f2>] release_sysfs_dirent+0x3e/0xf4 [<0000000000114914>] sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x150/0x154 [<0000000000118aec>] remove_files+0x48/0x68 [<0000000000118b84>] sysfs_remove_group+0x78/0xe8 [<00000000001cce3c>] device_remove_groups+0x48/0x68 [<00000000001cd4c0>] device_remove_attrs+0x3c/0x7c [<00000000001cd70e>] device_del+0x20e/0x3a8 [<00000000001cd8d2>] device_unregister+0x2a/0x44 [<000000000022fb2c>] css_sch_device_unregister+0x3c/0x54 [<0000000000230124>] css_evaluate_subchannel+0x2f0/0x400 [<000000000023041a>] css_trigger_slow_path+0xda/0x154 [<0000000000054c9a>] run_workqueue+0x136/0x1fc [<0000000000054e3a>] worker_thread+0xda/0x170 [<000000000005b05a>] kthread+0x122/0x15c [<0000000000019912>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc [<000000000001990c>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc This happens when I detach a device (which causes it to be unregistered). I'll look at it when I'm fully operational. - 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