Most probably this commit fixes my issue. Very strange that this error didn't appear before, it seems it exists at 2.6.30 even? commit c55b89fba9872ebcd5ac15cdfdad29ffb89329f0 [SCSI] mptsas : PAE Kernel more than 4 GB kernel panic This patch is solving problem for PAE kernel DMA operation. On PAE system dma_addr and unsigned long will have different values. Now dma_addr is not type casted using unsigned long. -- 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