On Thu, May 17 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> ..
> > > >
> > > > Ah ok, you need the updated patch series for ppc64 support. Builds fine
> > > > here on ppc64. See the #sglist branch of the block repo:
> > > >
> > > > git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block.git
> > > >
> > > > I can mail you an updated patch, if you want.
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is the whole panic stack..
> >
> > Thanks will fix that up, the IDE part is totally untested. Can you try
> > and backout this patch and see if it boots?
>
> Yes. It boots fine with following backed out.
>
> Looking at the code ide_probe.c: hwif_init() is doing
>
> hwif->sg_table = kmalloc(sizeof(struct scatterlist)*hwif->sg_max_nents,
> GFP_KERNEL);
>
> blk_rq_map_sg() is looking for the chaining info and going over end of the
> allocation.
Hmm, looks ok, I'm guessing it's just missing a memset (or just turn it
into a kzalloc())?
--
Jens Axboe
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