Hi folks ! Current upstream, POWER7 machine running bare metal, there's no BIOS at all, so the whole handover failing thing is an oddity in the first place which I haven't tracked down yet, but it should cause that crash: ohci_hcd 0000:07:02.0: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:07:02.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 ohci_hcd 0000:07:02.0: USB HC takeover failed! (BIOS/SMM bug) ohci_hcd 0000:07:02.0: can't setup ohci_hcd 0000:07:02.0: USB bus 4 deregistered ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at /home/benh/linux-impreza/fs/dcache.c:419! cpu 0x0: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c0000003dbb9b580] pc: c00000000014848c: .dput+0x50/0x26c lr: c00000000014847c: .dput+0x40/0x26c sp: c0000003dbb9b800 msr: 9000000000029032 current = 0xc0000003dbc6cec0 paca = 0xc00000000ff88000 pid = 2185, comm = work_for_cpu kernel BUG at /home/benh/linux-impreza/fs/dcache.c:419! enter ? for help [c0000003dbb9b800] c000000000148674 .dput+0x238/0x26c (unreliable) [c0000003dbb9b8a0] c0000000004bfd44 .fs_remove_file+0x278/0x2dc [c0000003dbb9b970] c0000000004c0374 .usbfs_notify+0x258/0x2e0 [c0000003dbb9ba20] c000000000602498 .notifier_call_chain+0x6c/0xe0 [c0000003dbb9bac0] c00000000008ffd4 .__blocking_notifier_call_chain +0x60/0x90 [c0000003dbb9bb70] c0000000004bde70 .usb_notify_remove_bus+0x24/0x3c [c0000003dbb9bbf0] c0000000004af760 .usb_deregister_bus+0x80/0xe0 [c0000003dbb9bc80] c0000000004b1274 .usb_add_hcd+0x6ec/0x750 [c0000003dbb9bd40] c0000000004bf284 .usb_hcd_pci_probe+0x1e0/0x2b0 [c0000003dbb9bde0] c000000000304ccc .local_pci_probe+0x34/0x48 [c0000003dbb9be50] c0000000000809ac .do_work_for_cpu+0x34/0x60 [c0000003dbb9bed0] c00000000008975c .kthread+0xb0/0xbc [c0000003dbb9bf90] c00000000001ce98 .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70 0:mon> Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html