FC2 x86_64 SMP broken.
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Fri May 21 11:12:27 UTC 2004
Alan Cox writes:
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:41:58PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> I submitted a complete traceback to bugzilla. Perhaps you missed that.
>> The kernel crashed somewhere in its memory handler
>> (cache_grow/kmem_cache_all/cache_alloc_refill) which later down the line
>> was invoked by the ext3 driver. Does not look like hardware-specific to me.
>
> What hardware is in your box. My dual opteron seems very happy so it seems
> reasonable to assume it is driver or hardware specific in some way (or even
> dud ram).
It's a Rhapsody HDAMA motherboard. Only the SMP kernel crashes. The UP
kernel boots fine.
> It might be interesting to try booting with various other cards removed and
> see if one specific card makes a mess. I've specifically seen this with
> the network drivers - if I load the driver for the ethernet in the docking
> bay (natsemi I believe) then the next pci device to do anything after it
> loads and finds no cards crashes the system in a similar way.
The only thing plugged into the motherboard is an Adaptec 29320 controller.
Can't really take that out and still be able to boot.
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