linux-kernel - Re: Panic in pci_call_probe from 2.6.18-mm2 and 2.6.18-mm3

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Message-ID: <452A85D8.70806@mbligh.org>
Date:	Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:24:40 -0700
From:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>
To:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
Cc:	jgarzik@...ox.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, sukadev@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Panic in pci_call_probe from 2.6.18-mm2 and 2.6.18-mm3

Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 00:02 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
>>Not sure if you've seen this already ... catching up on test results.
>>
>>This was on NUMA-Q, on both -mm2 and -mm3. -mm1 didn't suffer from this
>>problem.
>>
>>Full logs:
>>
>>mm2 - http://test.kernel.org/abat/50727/debug/console.log
>>mm3 - http://test.kernel.org/abat/51442/debug/console.log
>>
>>config - http://test.kernel.org/abat/51442/build/dotconfig
>>
>>I'm guessing from the 00000004 that the pcibus_to_node(dev->bus)
>>is failing because bus->sysdata is NULL. The disassembly and
>>structure offsets seem to line up for that.
>>
>>#define pcibus_to_node(bus) (
>>	(struct pci_sysdata *)((bus)->sysdata))->node
>>
>>struct pci_sysdata {
>>         int             domain;         /* PCI domain */
>>         int             node;           /* NUMA node */
>>};
>>
> 
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Jeff moved "node" to a proper field in sysdata, instead
> of overloading sysdata itself. I think this is causing the
> problem. I guess we could end up with sysdata = NULL in some
> cases ? Since you are the NUMA-Q expert, where does sysdata 
> gets set for NUMA-Q ? :)
> 
> -mm2 changed:
> 
> #define pcibus_to_node(bus) ((long) (bus)->sysdata)
> 
> to 
> 
> #define pcibus_to_node(bus) ((struct pci_sysdata *)((bus)->sysdata))-
> 
>>node

Buggered if I know, that's some strange pci thing ;-)

But can we revert whatever patch that was until it gets fixed, please?

Thanks,

M.
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