Seems to have some odd problem on PPC64 - crashes on boot. Seems to affect power 4 boxes, both LPAR and bare metal.
raid5: using function: 32regs (4524.000 MB/sec) md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 3.38 oprofile: using ppc64/power4 performance monitoring. NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes) Badness in nr_blockdev_pages at fs/block_dev.c:399 Call Trace: [c0000003fffafbd0] [000000000000000a] -- 0: that's all I get. full log is here: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/abat/9278/debug/console.log Oooh, this one has more info: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/abat/9276/debug/console.log Something networky? Tail end is here: raid5: using function: 32regs (5452.000 MB/sec) md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 3.38 oprofile: using ppc64/power4 performance monitoring. NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes) Badness in nr_blockdev_pages at fs/block_dev.c:399 Call Trace: [c00000003ffd3bd0] [000000000000000a] 0xa (unreliable) [c00000003ffd3c50] [c000000000079ec8] .si_meminfo+0x40/0x7c [c00000003ffd3ce0] [c0000000004fc0e8] .inet_initpeers+0x24/0x114 [c00000003ffd3de0] [c0000000004fc1f0] .ip_init+0x18/0x34 [c00000003ffd3e60] [c0000000004fcba4] .inet_init+0x14c/0x4a8 [c00000003ffd3f00] [c00000000000c378] .init+0x1e4/0x408 [c00000003ffd3f90] [c000000000013210] .kernel_thread+0x4c/0x68 kmem_cache_create: Early error in slab inet_peer_cache kernel BUG in kmem_cache_create at mm/slab.c:1516! Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PSERIES LPAR Modules linked in: NIP: C000000000081E80 XER: 00000000 LR: C000000000081E7C CTR: 00000000000D0274 REGS: c00000003ffd3970 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.13-rc3-mm2-autokern1) MSR: 8000000000029032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11 CR: 24004022 DAR: 0000000000000280 DSISR: c00000003ffd3b40 TASK: c00000000418d7e0[1] 'swapper' THREAD: c00000003ffd0000 CPU: 1 GPR00: C000000000081E7C C00000003FFD3BF0 C000000000647D10 000000000000003D GPR04: 8000000000009032 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 5F63616368650D0A C000000000567E28 GPR08: 0000000000000000 C00000000056A590 C000000000650C30 C000000000650B50 GPR12: 00000000000D0274 C000000000551800 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000230000 0000000000000000 0000000003A10000 C0000000004A4D58 GPR24: 0000000000002000 C000000000646208 C00000000052AC18 0000000000008000 GPR28: 0000000000000020 0000000000000000 C000000000576C88 0000000000000040 NIP [c000000000081e80] .kmem_cache_create+0xd4/0x8a8 LR [c000000000081e7c] .kmem_cache_create+0xd0/0x8a8 Call Trace: [c00000003ffd3bf0] [c000000000081e7c] .kmem_cache_create+0xd0/0x8a8 (unreliable) [c00000003ffd3ce0] [c0000000004fc154] .inet_initpeers+0x90/0x114 [c00000003ffd3de0] [c0000000004fc1f0] .ip_init+0x18/0x34 [c00000003ffd3e60] [c0000000004fcba4] .inet_init+0x14c/0x4a8 [c00000003ffd3f00] [c00000000000c378] .init+0x1e4/0x408 [c00000003ffd3f90] [c000000000013210] .kernel_thread+0x4c/0x68 Instruction dump: 3128ffff 7c094110 21670000 7d2b3914 7c0b4838 2c0b0000 4182001c e87e8168 e89e8170 7ee5bb78 4bfc7461 60000000 <0fe00000> 7b006fe3 41820008 0b150000 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/