FC2 x86_64 SMP broken.

[Sam Varshavchik]

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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