Re: BUG at smp.c:481, 2.4.8-pre2

["Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>]

>In article <296370000.996508500@tiny> you write:
>>
>>Ok, During boot on 2.4.8-pre2 I'm getting this oops just as it starts to
>>probe my aic7890 card.  Andrea is cc'd because I'm guessing it is due to
>>one of his patches ;-)
>
>It's a sanity check, which I removed (because it's worse to panic in a
>2.4.x kernel than it is to have the sanity problem). But the sanity
>check does show that there is some problem in ahc_pci_map_registers():
>it calls "ioremap()" with interrupts disabled, which is rather broken.
>
>I don't know that driver well enough to understand why the heck it would
>keep interrupts disabled over apparently a _long_ stretch of time during
>probing. The irq disable code seems to be somewhere else..
>
>Justin?

At least in 6.2.0, interrupts are not disabled at all during the probe.
In fact the driver doesn't explicitly disable interrupts ever other
than by way of taking a spinlock.  No spinlocks are held during this
portion of the probe.  Instead, we disable the interrupt line on the card,
and don't enable it until the probe is complete.  I haven't yet checked in
6.1.13, but this hasn't changed in a long time.  I'd be surprised if the
behavior is any different.  Perhaps interrupts are disabled higher in
the food chain?

--
Justin