The patch titled powerpc/pseries: avoid crash in PCI code if mem system not up has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is powerpc-pseries-avoid-crash-in-pci-code-if-mem-system-not-up.patch This patch was probably dropped from -mm because it has now been merged into a subsystem tree or into Linus's tree, or because it was folded into its parent patch in the -mm tree. From: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The powerpc code is currently performing PCI setup before memory initialization. PCI setup touches PCI config space registers. If the PCI card is bad, this will evoke an error, which currrently can't be handled, as the PCI error recovery code expects kmalloc() to be functional. This patch will cause the system to punt instead of crashing with cpu 0x0: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000000004434d0] pc: c0000000000c06b4: .kmem_cache_alloc+0x8c/0xf4 lr: c00000000004ad6c: .eeh_send_failure_event+0x48/0xfc This patch will also print name of the offending pci device. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c~powerpc-pseries-avoid-crash-in-pci-code-if-mem-system-not-up arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c --- devel/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c~powerpc-pseries-avoid-crash-in-pci-code-if-mem-system-not-up 2006-04-27 02:31:04.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c 2006-04-27 02:31:11.000000000 -0700 @@ -124,7 +124,15 @@ int eeh_send_failure_event (struct devic { unsigned long flags; struct eeh_event *event; + char *location; + if (!mem_init_done) { + printk(KERN_ERR "EEH: event during early boot not handled\n"); + location = (char *) get_property(dn, "ibm,loc-code", NULL); + printk(KERN_ERR "EEH: device node = %s\n", dn->full_name); + printk(KERN_ERR "EEH: PCI location = %s\n", location); + return 1; + } event = kmalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_ATOMIC); if (event == NULL) { printk (KERN_ERR "EEH: out of memory, event not handled\n"); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch pci-error-recovery-e100-network-device-driver.patch e1000-prevent-statistics-from-getting-garbled-during-reset.patch git-powerpc.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html