From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sachin Sant Subject: Re: [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 22:37:09 +0530 Message-ID: <4A085B3D.5000806@in.ibm.com> References: <20090508180251.f53f204e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <4A042B20.4090903@in.ibm.com> <20090508.125722.54378771.davem@davemloft.net> <20090508223332.GA4881@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e23smtp07.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.140]:37925 "EHLO e23smtp07.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751881AbZEKRHN (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 13:07:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090508223332.GA4881@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Jiri Pirko Cc: David Miller , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org Jiri Pirko wrote: > Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:57:22PM CEST, davem@davemloft.net wrote: > >> From: Sachin Sant >> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 18:22:48 +0530 >> >> >>> Todays Next failed to boot on a Power6 JS22 blade with following oops. >>> >> Jiri, I suspect this might be your address list changes. >> >> Although that's just a guess. But please take a look. >> > > Hmm, only thing I see might cause the problem would be if calling __hw_addr_add > in dev_addr_init fails, then dev->dev_addr would contain zeroes (which looks > this is not the case). But in this case the oops would appear earlier (in > ibmveth_probe dev_addr memcpy). > > Will do the patch which checks the result to behave correctly in case of oom > but this imho this wouldn't help. Strange, I will dig into this more tomorrow. > I can recreate this problem with today's Next release as well. Let me know if you want me to try out any thing to debug this problem. Thanks -Sachin -- --------------------------------- Sachin Sant IBM Linux Technology Center India Systems and Technology Labs Bangalore, India ---------------------------------