Re: [qlogicisp.c PROBLEM 2.5] OOPS: "Unable to handle kernel paging request ..."

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 03:32:01 EST


On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:14:37PM +0200, Morten Helgesen wrote:
>> Aah - looks like it is PCI DMA related. I`ll see if I can whip up a patch
>> this weekend.

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 10:30:16AM +0200, Morten Helgesen wrote:
> Hmm ... it may actually look like though I have a hosed controller
> on my hands, and that it is actually the SCSI error handling (or lack thereof)
> that causes the oops ... something tells me that 2.4.19 is able to 'offline'
> the controller correctly, but 2.5.32 is not ...
> Bill, have you looked closer into this ? Even though a hosed controller
> is the reason for my OOPS, I guess that won`t explain the OOPS you`re seing.

I can't quite figure out what went wrong. It indexes off a NULL base
pointer in interrupt context and basically I don't have enough left of
what led to it (or enough understanding of the driver) to figure out why.

Cheers,
Bill
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