The patch titled msi: mask the msix vector before we unmap it has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is msi-mask-the-msix-vector-before-we-unmap-it.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: msi: mask the msix vector before we unmap it From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> With these two lines in the reverse order the drives/block/ccis.c was oopsing in msi_free_irqs. Silly us calling writel on an area after we unmap it. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f8b2200c printing eip: c01e9cc7 *pdpt = 0000000000003001 *pde = 0000000037e48067 *pte = 0000000000000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: cciss ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core sunrpc loop dm_multipath button battery asus_acpi ac tg3 floppy sg dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod ata_piix libata mptsas scsi_transport_sas mptspi scsi_transport_spi mptscsih mptbase sd_mod scsi_mod CPU: 1 EIP: 0060:[<c01e9cc7>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.22-rc2-gd2579053 #1) EIP is at msi_free_irqs+0x81/0xbe eax: f8b22000 ebx: f71f3180 ecx: f7fff280 edx: c1886eb8 esi: f7c4e800 edi: f7c4ec48 ebp: 00000002 esp: f5a0dec8 ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068 Process rmmod (pid: 5286, ti=f5a0d000 task=c47d2550 task.ti=f5a0d000) Stack: 00000002 f8b72294 00000400 f8b69ca7 f8b6bc6c 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 f5a997f4 f8b69d61 f7c5a4b0 f7c4e848 f7c4e848 f7c4e800 f7c4e800 f8b72294 f7c4e848 f8b72294 c01e3cdf f7c4e848 c024c469 Call Trace: [<f8b69ca7>] cciss_shutdown+0xae/0xc3 [cciss] [<f8b69d61>] cciss_remove_one+0xa5/0x178 [cciss] [<c01e3cdf>] pci_device_remove+0x16/0x35 [<c024c469>] __device_release_driver+0x71/0x8e [<c024c56e>] driver_detach+0xa0/0xde [<c024bc5c>] bus_remove_driver+0x27/0x41 [<c01e3ef3>] pci_unregister_driver+0xb/0x13 [<f8b6a343>] cciss_cleanup+0xf/0x51 [cciss] [<c0139ced>] sys_delete_module+0x110/0x135 [<c0104c7a>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 Here's a patch that just reverses the 2 lines of code as Eric suggests. Please consider this for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chase Maupin <chase.maupin@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pci/msi.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/pci/msi.c~msi-mask-the-msix-vector-before-we-unmap-it drivers/pci/msi.c --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c~msi-mask-the-msix-vector-before-we-unmap-it +++ a/drivers/pci/msi.c @@ -558,12 +558,12 @@ static int msi_free_irqs(struct pci_dev* list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &dev->msi_list, list) { if (entry->msi_attrib.type == PCI_CAP_ID_MSIX) { - if (list_is_last(&entry->list, &dev->msi_list)) - iounmap(entry->mask_base); - writel(1, entry->mask_base + entry->msi_attrib.entry_nr * PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_SIZE + PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_VECTOR_CTRL_OFFSET); + + if (list_is_last(&entry->list, &dev->msi_list)) + iounmap(entry->mask_base); } list_del(&entry->list); kfree(entry); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are dvb_en_50221-convert-to-kthread-api.patch fix-i-oat-for-kexec.patch pci-disable-msi-by-default-on-systems-with-serverworks-ht1000-chips.patch msi-fix-the-ordering-of-msix-irqs.patch msi-mask-the-msix-vector-before-we-unmap-it.patch clone-flag-clone_parent_tidptr-leaves-invalid-results-in-memory.patch preserve-the-dirty-bit-in-init_page_buffers.patch rd-mark-ramdisk-buffer-heads-dirty-in-ramdisk_set_page_dirty.patch rd-mark-ramdisk-buffer-heads-dirty-in-ramdisk_set_page_dirty-fix.patch rd-simplify-by-using-the-same-helper-functions-in-libfs.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