Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 139731
Kernel panic trying to use Promise TX4 controller on a NCCH-DL
Last modified: 2009-07-24 17:33:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: I am trying to run linux on an ASUS NCCH-DL mother board. Hardware: Assus NCCH-DL motherboard, dual 3.2ghz / 800 mhz / 1mb L2 cache cpus 2 gb RAM Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA boot disk via on board controller 4 x WD 250g 7,000rpm sata disks via on board PDC20319 controller (ie Promise TX4) I do a straight install of RHEL4 Beta-2. fdisk /dev/sda (the first of the 4 drives on the TX4), allocating the whole disk as /dev/sda1. Under RHEL4 beta 2, the modules loaded look like: Module Size Used by md5 4033 1 ipv6 235393 10 parport_pc 24705 1 lp 12077 0 parport 42121 2 parport_pc,lp netconsole 6749 0 netdump 12449 0 autofs4 24389 3 sunrpc 161189 1 dm_mod 54997 0 button 6481 0 battery 8901 0 ac 4805 0 uhci_hcd 31449 0 ehci_hcd 31557 0 hw_random 5717 0 snd_intel8x0 33641 0 snd_ac97_codec 64401 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss 49145 0 snd_mixer_oss 17985 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 100425 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 30789 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9673 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 27237 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8137 1 snd_rawmidi snd 55717 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 9889 1 snd e1000 77389 0 ext3 117065 1 jbd 74969 1 ext3 ata_piix 8389 2 sata_promise 9669 0 libata 40261 2 ata_piix,sata_promise sd_mod 17089 3 scsi_mod 119441 3 sata_promise,libata,sd_mod Then, when I try to do an mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1, in about 1 second it writes the inodes up to about 415/1864 , and then stops and writes about 1 inode a second for a few seconds, and then crashes with a stack trace looking like: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:564! invalid operand: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport netconsole netdump autofs4 sunrpc dm_mod button battery ac uhci _hcd ehci_hcd hw_random snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc sn d_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidiEIP is at shrink_cache+0xdb/0x4d5 eax: 00000000 ebx: c0358a14 ecx: c1449a18 edx: c1449a18 esi: c0358a68 edi: 00000007 ebp: 00000006 esp: c21beecc ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process kswapd0 (pid: 42, threadinfo=c21be000 task=c216e0b0) Stack: 00000020 c21bef68 c1449a78 c14499d8 00000000 00000001 c14497a0 c14497c0 c14497e0 c14498e0 shrink_zone+0x8f/0x9a [<c0151a95>] balance_pgdat+0x176/0x249 [<c0151c21>] kswapd+0xb9/0xbb [<c011e277>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d [<c030b2e2>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [<c011e277>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d [<c0151b68>] kswapd+0x0/0xbb [<c01041d9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 31 ed bf 01 00 00 00 8d 73 54 39 73 54 74 7e 8b 4b 58 8b 41 04 39 f0 74 07 83 75 04 I have the same problem with both SMP and non-SMP version of RHEL4 beta 2. I have tried this both with and without a raid0 disk array defined in bios, and I have also tried it with various cominations of LVM. All with roughly the same results. (kernel panic). Any ideas? Evan Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.See above 2. 3. Actual Results: kernel panic Expected Results: A usable file system. Additional info:
Do we have test hardware in-house? More importantly, is the Promise TX4 located on a 66Mhz, 100Mhz, or 133Mhz PCI bus? There are reported problems when the TX4 is connected to a PCI bus running > 33 Mhz.
Note, the controller is a PDC20319 chip mounted on the mother board, but according to the block diagram on page 107 of the manual: http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/Socket604/NCCH-DL/e1636_ncch-dl.pdf It's connected to the 6300ESB south bridge via a 33mhz bus. Evan
Removing from Blocker list. This will not stop ship, albeit as Jeff mentions this should be fixed asap, along with the 66+ MHz bus issues.
I was not able to match your exact hardware, but, I was able to install RHEL4 U8 to a Seagate drive hanging off a TX4 controller, and successfully run some IO stress. Please re-open if you can reproduce on a kernel-2.6.9-89.EL.