On Thu, 31 May 2007 17:39:08 -0500
"Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:22:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 31 May 2007, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 07:22:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 29 May 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Subject : Oops on 2.6.22-rc2 when unloading the cciss driver
> > > > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/24/172
> > > > > Submitter : Mike Miller (OS Dev) <[email protected]>
> > > > > Status : Unknown
> > > >
> > > > I thought this one should be fixed by commit e9ca75b53. Not so?
> > >
> > > I apologize for the slow response. I also apologize that I don't know enough
> > > about git to figure out what commit e9ca75b53 does.
> >
> > Even without git, you can use the kernel.org gitweb install:
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e9ca75b53
> >
> > (where the "h=...." is the magic part - pick any commit SHA1 you want,
> > including short-hand ones like the one I gave).
> >
> > With git, you just do
> >
> > git show e9ca75b53
> >
> > to see a particular named commit.
> >
> > > I submitted a fix that was blessed by Eric B. that fixed that Oops.
> >
> > Ok, I don't think I have anything like that. The one I pointed to is the
> > one by Gerald Britton, acked by you ..
> >
> > But I now realize that that commit was already in -rc2. In fact, it's just
> > before the -rc2 release. So while it claims to fix one oops on shutdown,
> > it may be the _cause_ of the oops on mudule unload.
> >
> > Linus
> Linus,
> The fix from Gerald was a different Oops and is not related to this problem.
> This is the patch I submitted for the rmmod Oops:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> index e01380b..6632150 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> @@ -558,12 +558,12 @@ static int msi_free_irqs(struct pci_dev* dev)
>
> list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &dev->msi_list, list) {
> if (entry->msi_attrib.type == PCI_CAP_ID_MSIX) {
> - if (list_is_last(&entry->list, &dev->msi_list))
> - iounmap(entry->mask_base);
> -
> writel(1, entry->mask_base + entry->msi_attrib.entry_nr
> * PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_SIZE
> + PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_VECTOR_CTRL_OFFSET);
> +
> + if (list_is_last(&entry->list, &dev->msi_list))
> + iounmap(entry->mask_base);
> }
> list_del(&entry->list);
> kfree(entry);
>
> Reference:
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/ed0949e9d42cfdef/5953daaa00ea5bf7?lnk=gst&q=cciss&rnum=3&hl=en#5953daaa00ea5bf7
>
> I'm not sure what the status is right now.
>
The status is "sitting in my queue for 2.6.22". I'll be sending it up
today or tomorrow. Was hoping to get an ack from Greg &/| Andi on it, but
those are not easy to come by.
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