I /think/ that there is an issue with this routine /if/ the firmware images are not loaded properly - on a 16-way ia64 box I am starting to see this with an up-stream kernel (Jens Axboe's origin/io-cpu-affinity branch). In any event, it looks to me that : if (qla2x00_initialize_adapter(ha)) { qla_printk(KERN_WARNING, ha, "Failed to initialize adapter\n"); DEBUG2(printk("scsi(%ld): Failed to initialize adapter - " "Adapter flags %x.\n", ha->host_no, ha->device_flags)); ret = -ENODEV; goto probe_failed; } skips around: ret = scsi_add_host(host, &pdev->dev); which is needed to properly initialize the freelist (via: scsi_setup_command_freelist). When qla2xxx_probe_one ends up calling scsi_host_put in this error path it eventually gets to scsi_destroy_command_freelist and we get the error below. There's a lot of code here to go through for me, but perhaps someone out there has a quicker way of figuring out what is really wrong and/or being able to provide a fix. BTW: I have had the issue with firmware for a while, just never gotten around to fixing it - typically just: modprobe -r qla2xxx modprobe qla2xxx has gotten it to work in the past, but now with the NaT issue I can't unload and reload the module. Alan D. Brunelle HP ========================================================= qla2xxx 0000:2a:01.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 100, iobase 0xc0000f4010040000 qla2xxx 0000:2a:01.0: Configuring PCI space... qla2xxx 0000:2a:01.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... qla2xxx 0000:2a:01.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... qla2xxx 0000:2a:01.0: Firmware image unavailable. qla2xxx 0000:2a:01.0: Firmware images can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/. qla2xxx 0000:2a:01.0: Failed to initialize adapter insmod[1828]: NaT consumption 17179869216 [1] Modules linked in: qla2xxx(+) firmware_class ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore Pid: 1828, CPU 0, comm: insmod psr : 0000101008526010 ifs : 8000000000000206 ip : [<a00000010054b1b0>] Not tainted (2.6.25io-cpu-affinity) ip is at scsi_destroy_command_freelist+0x10/0xe0 unat: 0000000000000000 pfs : 0000000000000307 rsc : 0000000000000003 rnat: 0000000000000000 bsps: 0000000000000000 pr : 0000000000005559 ldrs: 0000000000000000 ccv : 0000000000000000 fpsr: 0009804c8a70433f csd : 0000000000000000 ssd : 0000000000000000 b0 : a00000010054c820 b6 : a000000100012bc0 b7 : a000000100009a60 f6 : 000000000000000000000 f7 : 1003e0000000000400000 f8 : 1003e0000000028000000 f9 : 1003e0000002d98c5cede f10 : 1003e1fdee852b0000000 f11 : 1003e0000000000000007 r1 : a000000100c26610 r2 : e000076381418030 r3 : e000076381418150 r8 : 0000000000000000 r9 : a0000001009fb698 r10 : 00000000000001d0 r11 : a0000001009fb680 r12 : e000070384057d10 r13 : e000070384050000 r14 : 0000000000000000 r15 : e000070384050c10 r16 : a0000001009fb6a8 r17 : 0000000000000000 r18 : 0000000000000008 r19 : 0009804c8a70433f r20 : e000070384057d10 r21 : a0000001009fb688 r22 : 0000000000000001 r23 : a0000001009fb690 r24 : 0000000000004000 r25 : 0000000000004000 r26 : a0000001009fb698 r27 : 0000000000000000 r28 : 0000000000006659 r29 : e000070384050c10 r30 : e000070384050c10 r31 : a0000001009fb698 Call Trace: [<a000000100012020>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 sp=e000070384057760 bsp=e000070384051380 [<a000000100012930>] show_regs+0x850/0x8a0 sp=e000070384057930 bsp=e000070384051328 [<a000000100035a70>] die+0x1b0/0x2c0 sp=e000070384057930 bsp=e0000703840512e0 [<a000000100035bd0>] die_if_kernel+0x50/0x80 sp=e000070384057930 bsp=e0000703840512b0 [<a00000010071be20>] __kprobes_text_start+0x11a0/0x12c0 sp=e000070384057930 bsp=e000070384051258 [<a00000010000a260>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x270 sp=e000070384057b40 bsp=e000070384051258 [<a00000010054b1b0>] scsi_destroy_command_freelist+0x10/0xe0 sp=e000070384057d10 bsp=e000070384051228 [<a00000010054c820>] scsi_host_dev_release+0x140/0x1e0 sp=e000070384057d10 bsp=e0000703840511f0 [<a0000001004be5a0>] device_release+0xc0/0x160 sp=e000070384057d10 bsp=e0000703840511d0 [<a0000001003e7c30>] kobject_release+0xd0/0x120 sp=e000070384057d10 bsp=e000070384051198 [<a0000001003e9b50>] kref_put+0xb0/0xe0 sp=e000070384057d10 bsp=e000070384051170 [<a0000001003e7950>] kobject_put+0x90/0xc0 sp=e000070384057d10 bsp=e000070384051150 [<a0000001004be970>] put_device+0x30/0x60 sp=e000070384057d10 bsp=e000070384051130 [<a00000010054c620>] scsi_host_put+0x20/0x40 sp=e000070384057d10 bsp=e000070384051110 [<a000000207aa7ff0>] qla2x00_probe_one+0x2170/0x4110 [qla2xxx] sp=e000070384057d10 bsp=e0000703840510a0 [<a000000100408750>] pci_device_probe+0x170/0x240 sp=e000070384057d90 bsp=e000070384051058 [<a0000001004c4dc0>] driver_probe_device+0x220/0x360 sp=e000070384057da0 bsp=e000070384051020 [<a0000001004c4f80>] __driver_attach+0x80/0xe0 sp=e000070384057da0 bsp=e000070384050fe0 [<a0000001004c3870>] bus_for_each_dev+0x90/0x100 sp=e000070384057da0 bsp=e000070384050fa8 [<a0000001004c4960>] driver_attach+0x40/0x60 sp=e000070384057dc0 bsp=e000070384050f88 [<a0000001004c4300>] bus_add_driver+0x160/0x4a0 sp=e000070384057dc0 bsp=e000070384050f40 [<a0000001004c5580>] driver_register+0x140/0x2a0 sp=e000070384057dc0 bsp=e000070384050ef8 [<a000000100408cf0>] __pci_register_driver+0xb0/0x140 sp=e000070384057dc0 bsp=e000070384050ec0 [<a000000207968260>] qla2x00_module_init+0x260/0x400 [qla2xxx] sp=e000070384057dd0 bsp=e000070384050e88 [<a0000001000db000>] sys_init_module+0x35a0/0x38c0 sp=e000070384057dd0 bsp=e000070384050d08 [<a00000010000a0c0>] ia64_ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x20 sp=e000070384057e30 bsp=e000070384050d08 [<a000000000010720>] __kernel_syscall_via_break+0x0/0x20 sp=e000070384058000 bsp=e000070384050d08 -- 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