On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Alan D. Brunelle wrote: > 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). Wasn't something like this posted recently to linux-scsi: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/27/333 this is sitting in scsi-misc-2.6.git: [SCSI] bug fix for free list handling http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a79cbe1aa5dd695f0ee012ecde1ff88b1192e326 which I gather will be pushed soon... > 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. -- 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