Bug 632500

Summary:	call trace when booting up hp-z200-06.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Zhang Kexin <kzhang>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.1	CC:	btherrie, jcaron, sgruszka
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2010-09-10 20:25:49 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Zhang Kexin 2010-09-10 06:26:51 UTC

Description of problem:

there is call trace when booting up hp-z200-06.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com

Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: Checking aperture...
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: No AGP bridge found
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: WARNING: at drivers/pci/dmar.c:636 check_zero_address+0x158/0x1a4() (Not tainted)
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: Hardware name: HP Z200 Workstation
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed93000 returns all ones!
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: BIOS vendor: Hewlett-Packard; Ver: 786H3 v01.08; Product Version:
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: Modules linked in:
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: Call Trace:
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff8106b857>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff8106b946>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff818eeb02>] check_zero_address+0x158/0x1a4
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff812d1627>] ? acpi_get_table_with_size+0x5a/0xb4
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff814d1ed5>] ? _etext+0x0/0x3
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff818eeb60>] detect_intel_iommu+0x12/0x91
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff818c9833>] pci_iommu_alloc+0x5e/0x6c
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff818db0da>] mem_init+0x19/0xec
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff818c1cd4>] start_kernel+0x21a/0x41f
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff818c133a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: [<ffffffff818c1438>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: AMD-Vi disabled by default: pass amd_iommu=on to enable
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: Placing 64MB software IO TLB between ffff880020000000 - ffff880024000000


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.32-71

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install RHEL6.0-20100908.1_nfs-Server-x86_64
2. reboot the machine
3.
  
Actual results:
there is call trace

Expected results:
no such call trace

Additional info:

Comment 2 Stanislaw Gruszka 2010-09-10 20:25:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> there is call trace when booting up hp-z200-06.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com
[snip] 
> Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: WARNING: at drivers/pci/dmar.c:636
> check_zero_address+0x158/0x1a4() (Not tainted)
> Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: Hardware name: HP Z200 Workstation
> Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at
> address fed93000 returns all ones!
> Sep 10 02:15:48 hp-z200-06 kernel: BIOS vendor: Hewlett-Packard; Ver: 786H3
> v01.08; Product Version:

Ask machine owner to update BIOS.

Comment 3 jcaron 2013-07-18 17:57:46 UTC

can we re-open this, this has not been resolved.

we have done Bios updates, re-flashed bios...


no resolution. shows up on all RHELS