Hi Brian, Booting one of our JS21 blades with 2.6.28-rc7 leads to the following: ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.4.1 (April 24, 2007) ipr 0000:01:01.0: Found IOA with IRQ: 26 ipr 0000:01:01.0: Starting IOA initialization sequence. ipr 0000:01:01.0: Adapter firmware version: 06160039 ipr 0000:01:01.0: IOA initialized. ------------[ cut here ]------------ Badness at kernel/lockdep.c:2193 NIP: c0000000000855d0 LR: c0000000000855b4 CTR: c0000000000482d0 REGS: c00000000fffb8d0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.28-rc5-autokern1) MSR: 8000000000021032 <ME,IR,DR> CR: 28000022 XER: 00000004 TASK = c00000000091fa80[0] 'swapper' THREAD: c000000000a3c000 CPU: 0 GPR00: 0000000000000000 c00000000fffbb50 c000000000a3c2e0 0000000000000001 GPR04: 000000000000a580 c0000000003870d4 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR08: 0000000000000000 c00000000112fdf0 c0000000008ed918 c000000000abcfd0 GPR12: 0000000048000088 c000000000a7f300 0000000000000000 0000000002100000 GPR16: c000000000644bd0 c000000000643390 0000000000000000 00000000003d0c00 GPR20: 00000000028372d8 c0000000007372d8 0000000002837548 c000000000737548 GPR24: c000000000644660 00000000028372d8 000000000000001a c000000076760000 GPR28: 0000000000000004 c0000000004e8450 c0000000009aafb0 c00000000091fa80 NIP [c0000000000855d0] .trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x194 LR [c0000000000855b4] .trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf0/0x194 Call Trace: [c00000000fffbb50] [c00000000fffbbe0] 0xc00000000fffbbe0 (unreliable) [c00000000fffbbe0] [c0000000004e8450] ._spin_unlock_irq+0x38/0x5c [c00000000fffbc70] [c0000000003870d4] .ipr_ioa_reset_done+0x204/0x284 [c00000000fffbd10] [c00000000037d234] .ipr_reset_ioa_job+0xc4/0xec [c00000000fffbda0] [c000000000385ce0] .ipr_isr+0x208/0x484 [c00000000fffbe50] [c0000000000aaf3c] .handle_IRQ_event+0x58/0xd4 [c00000000fffbef0] [c0000000000ad978] .handle_fasteoi_irq+0x110/0x1ac [c00000000fffbf90] [c000000000025214] .call_handle_irq+0x1c/0x2c [c000000000a3f9a0] [c00000000000d168] .do_IRQ+0x120/0x210 [c000000000a3fa40] [c000000000004804] hardware_interrupt_entry+0x1c/0x98 --- Exception: 501 at .pseries_dedicated_idle_sleep+0xec/0x1cc LR = .pseries_dedicated_idle_sleep+0xdc/0x1cc [c000000000a3fd30] [c000000000038208] .pseries_dedicated_idle_sleep+0x74/0x1cc (unreliable) [c000000000a3fdd0] [c000000000012134] .cpu_idle+0x114/0x1dc [c000000000a3fe60] [c0000000004ecb18] .rest_init+0x7c/0x94 [c000000000a3fee0] [c000000000700a40] .start_kernel+0x4b8/0x4e0 [c000000000a3ff90] [c000000000008368] .start_here_common+0x1c/0x34 Instruction dump: e92d01b0 80090894 2f800000 41be002c 481ed1d1 60000000 2fa30000 419e0080 e93e8090 80090000 2f800000 409e0070 <0fe00000> 48000068 7fe3fb78 38800001 scsi0 : IBM 572E Storage Adapter scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access IBM-ESXS MAY2036RC T106 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi: unknown device type 31 scsi 0:255:255:255: No Device IBM 572E001 0150 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 vio_register_driver: driver ibmvscsi registering st: Version 20080504, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 Driver 'st' needs updating - please use bus_type methods Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] 71096640 512-byte hardware sectors: (36.4 GB/33.9 GiB) sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Mode Sense: d7 00 00 08 sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] 71096640 512-byte hardware sectors: (36.4 GB/33.9 GiB) sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Mode Sense: d7 00 00 08 sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 scsi 0:255:255:255: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 31 Is this an issue with the ipr driver or a lockdep issue? Thanks! Mark -- 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