Today's Next tree failed to boot on a Power6 box with following BUG : BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, modprobe/63 Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xffffc994838 Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000035f5a8 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=1024 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: scsi_mod(+) NIP: c00000000035f5a8 LR: c00000000035f58c CTR: 0000000000136f8c REGS: c0000000c7d03500 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.30-rc5-autotest-next-20090511) MSR: 8000000000009032 CR: 28222484 XER: 0000000f DAR: 00000ffffc994838, DSISR: 0000000040000000 TASK = c0000000c7cf0a80[63] 'modprobe' THREAD: c0000000c7d00000 CPU: 1 GPR00: c00000000035f58c c0000000c7d03780 c000000000aaeed8 0000000000000031 GPR04: 0000000000000000 00000000585cf4e0 0000000000673580 80000000565a6cc0 GPR08: 0000000000000000 c0000000009ebf50 0000000000000000 c0000000009ebf38 GPR12: 0000000028222482 c000000000b82600 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000018 ffffffffffffffff c0000000009bbe40 0000000000000010 GPR24: 0000000000210d00 c0000000c6caff80 c0000000dfc732a0 c000000000f61380 GPR28: c0000000007c8350 c0000000008a4280 c000000000a2f928 00000ffffc994550 NIP [c00000000035f5a8] .spin_bug+0x90/0xd4 LR [c00000000035f58c] .spin_bug+0x74/0xd4 Call Trace: [c0000000c7d03780] [c00000000035f58c] .spin_bug+0x74/0xd4 (unreliable) [c0000000c7d03810] [c00000000035f890] ._raw_spin_lock+0x48/0x184 [c0000000c7d038b0] [c0000000005d67d8] ._spin_lock+0x10/0x24 [c0000000c7d03920] [c00000000013fbdc] .__slab_alloc_page+0x344/0x3cc [c0000000c7d039e0] [c000000000141168] .kmem_cache_alloc+0x13c/0x21c [c0000000c7d03aa0] [c000000000141b04] .kmem_cache_create+0x294/0x2a8 [c0000000c7d03b90] [d000000000ea14cc] .scsi_init_queue+0x38/0x170 [scsi_mod] [c0000000c7d03c20] [d000000000ea13c8] .init_scsi+0x1c/0xe8 [scsi_mod] [c0000000c7d03ca0] [c0000000000092c0] .do_one_initcall+0x80/0x19c [c0000000c7d03d90] [c0000000000c0540] .SyS_init_module+0xe0/0x244 [c0000000c7d03e30] [c000000000008534] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 Instruction dump: 7f84e378 e87e8020 38c604d0 e8e902ea 4827fced 60000000 2fbf0000 80bd0004 409e0010 e8de8028 38e0ffff 4800000c 38df04d0 7fa4eb78 811d0008 ---[ end trace f725820a6fa9dbb7 ]--- /init: line 21: 63 Segmentation fault modprobe $file I have attached the dmesg log here. Let me know if any other information is required. Thanks -Sachin -- --------------------------------- Sachin Sant IBM Linux Technology Center India Systems and Technology Labs Bangalore, India ---------------------------------