Distribution: Gentoo Hardware Environment: ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe Software Environment: Problem Description: In 2.6.3-rc1 kernel. 2.6.1 and all I tried before from 2.6 series, I have to use pnpbios=off on kernel commandline to be able to bootup the system. Here is a resolved stacktrace from 2.6.3-rc1. The kernel locks before mounting anything or mounting any partition, immediately after the pnpbios code is used (compiled statically into kernel). ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.6.3-rc1. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.6.3-rc1/ (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.6.3-rc1 (specified) Error (regular_file): read_ksyms stat /proc/ksyms failed No modules in ksyms, skipping objects No ksyms, skipping lsmod CPU: 0 EIP: 0098:[<00002aa0>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010087 eax: 000022e3 ebx: 0000005c ecx: 00010000 edx: 00000001 esi: f7fa238e edi: 00000015 ebp: f7fa0000 esp: f7fa9eda ds: 00b0 es: 00b0 ss: 0068 Stack: 000002e3 22e32912 00000000 807d0015 0006c883 00010001 9f2c801c 0015c88a 9f2c0000 c8839f08 00060001 61190606 01060106 007b5f74 0000007b 00a08000 5f3000b0 00a85ef6 00000082 000b0000 00010090 00a80000 00b00000 00a00001 Call Trace: Code: Bad EIP value. >>EIP; 00002aa0 Before first symbol <===== >>esi; f7fa238e <__crc_blk_attempt_remerge+6bd792/95fb16> >>ebp; f7fa0000 <__crc_blk_attempt_remerge+6bb404/95fb16> >>esp; f7fa9eda <__crc_blk_attempt_remerge+6c52de/95fb16> 1 error issued. Results may not be reliable. Steps to reproduce: Full bootup messages caught on remote console Linux version 2.6.3-rc1 (root@aquarius) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7)) #5 Sun Feb 8 14:51:57 CET 24 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ff30000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff30000 - 000000003ff40000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff40000 - 000000003fff0000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 127MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000ff780 hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice. hm, page 00100000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 261936 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 32560 pages, LIFO batch:7 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v002 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000f9e30 ACPI: XSDT (v001 A M I OEMXSDT 0x11000321 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff30100 ACPI: FADT (v003 A M I OEMFACP 0x11000321 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff30290 ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x11000321 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff30390 ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I OEMBIOS 0x11000321 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff40040 ACPI: DSDT (v001 P4CED P4CED096 0x00000096 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 15:2 APIC version 20 NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Cannot boot CPU(apicid 0x1). ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] global_irq_base[0x0]) IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 2 IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, IRQ 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI BALANCE SET Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 agp_try_unsupported=1 console=ttyS0,57600n8 console=tty0 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes) Detected 3375.418 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Memory: 1030632k/1047744k available (3091k kernel code, 16208k reserved, 1244k data, 188k init, 130240k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 6668.28 BogoMIPS Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU#0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU#0: Thermal monitoring enabled CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 09 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 3374.0334 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 224.0955 MHz. NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=3 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116 tbxface-0117 [03] acpi_load_tables : ACPI Tables successfully acquired Parsing all Control Methods:.............................................................................................................. Table [DSDT](id F004) - 511 Objects with 48 Devices 150 Methods 14 Regions ACPI Namespace successfully loaded at root c05acc3c evxfevnt-0093 [04] acpi_enable : Transition to ACPI mode successful evgpeblk-0747 [06] ev_create_gpe_block : GPE 00 to 31 [_GPE] 4 regs at 0000000000000828 on int 9 Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package initialization:.................................................................................... Initialized 14/14 Regions 42/42 Fields 41/41 Buffers 16/16 Packages (519 nodes) Executing all Device _STA and_INI methods:................................................... 51 Devices found containing: 51 _STA, 1 _INI methods ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f5270 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x5e5a, dseg 0xf0000 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0098:[<00002aa0>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010087 EIP is at 0x2aa0 eax: 000022e3 ebx: 0000005c ecx: 00010000 edx: 00000001 esi: f7fa238e edi: 00000015 ebp: f7fa0000 esp: f7fa9eda ds: 00b0 es: 00b0 ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=f7fa8000 task=f7fcd9e0) Stack: 000002e3 22e32912 00000000 807d0015 0006c883 00010001 9f2c801c 0015c88a 9f2c0000 c8839f08 00060001 61190606 01060106 007b5f74 0000007b 00a08000 5f3000b0 00a85ef6 00000082 000b0000 00010090 00a80000 00b00000 00a00001 Call Trace: Code: Bad EIP value. <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
*** Bug 2046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
PNP don't work on Abit BH7 too. On boot kernel locks with Oops: ... Oops: 0002 [#1] ... EIP is at pnpbios_calls_init + 0x86/0x134 ... Call Trace: pnpbios_init + 0x4f/0xb4 do_initcalls + 0x24/0x9a init_workqueues + 0x12/0x27 init + 0x5c/0x178 init + 0x0/0x178 kernel_thread_helper + 0x5/0xb
Jeroen van Disseldorp has reported a similar issue in http://bugs.debian.org/226996 I've attached his oops and his dmi information.
Created attachment 2255 [details] Panic message from Debian Bug #226996
Created attachment 2256 [details] DMI info for Debian Bug #226996
Hi.. this occurs in 2.6.4-rc1 as well. It's a brand new machine, with no isa devices, ASUS motherboard, Pentium 4, 1gig of ram, and 120 gig hard drive. Fedora core2-test1 installed. Just compiled a kernel from scratch, no redhat patches. Note, I don't need PNP; I just compiled it in for the heck of it. I'll be taking it out momentarily. I'm just reporting it because I thought you'd like to know it's still present, and to give you another data point.
Here is another report of the same issue with yet another Asus board: http://bugs.debian.org/232535
Created attachment 2486 [details] asus-pnpbios-blacklist This patch will blacklist the ASUS P4P800
Please let me know if the attached patch catches it.
Hi, I cannot reproduce the original bug on the very same system (ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe). Please see attached .config and the boot messages.
Created attachment 2494 [details] boot messages from vanilla 2.6.5 on ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe
Created attachment 2495 [details] .config from vanilla 2.6.5 on ASUS P4C800E-Deluxe
> PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... > PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f5270 > PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x5e5a, dseg 0xf0000 > PNPBIOS fault.. attempting recovery. > PnPBIOS: Warning! Your PnP BIOS caused a fatal error. Attempting to continue > PnPBIOS: You may need to reboot with the "nobiospnp" option to operate stably > PnPBIOS: Check with your vendor for an updated BIOS > PnPBIOS: get_dev_node: unexpected status 0x28 > PnPBIOS: 6 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 6 recorded by driver A change recently went in to fix pnpbios error recovery. It appears to be working. Now we need to clean up more gracefully.
Hi, I'm not sure if bug should have already been closed as fixed or whatever, this is what I get on 2.6.6-rc1. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: the driver 'system' has been registered PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f5270 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x5e5a, dseg 0xf0000 pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:00' and the driver 'system' PNPBIOS fault.. attempting recovery. PnPBIOS: Warning! Your PnP BIOS caused a fatal error. Attempting to continue PnPBIOS: You may need to reboot with the "nobiospnp" option to operate stably PnPBIOS: Check with your vendor for an updated BIOS PnPBIOS: get_dev_node: unexpected status 0x28 PnPBIOS: 6 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 6 recorded by driver I see in linux-2.6.6-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c the following (am just curious, how P4P800 could help on my P4E800E-Deluxe, which should differ from P4E800E and more from P4P800): 780 781 { exploding_pnp_bios, "Higraded P14H", { /* PnPBIOS GPF on boot */ 782 MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "American Megatrends Inc."), 783 MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "07.00T"), 784 MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Higraded"), 785 MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "P14H") 786 } }, 787 { exploding_pnp_bios, "ASUS P4P800", { /* PnPBIOS GPF on boot */ 788 MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."), 789 MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "P4P800"), 790 } }, 791
Could you please provide your DMI info and I'll add that board also. Thanks, Adam
Created attachment 3025 [details] 2.6.7-rc2 bootup messages
Created attachment 3026 [details] dmidecode
Created attachment 3027 [details] acpidmp
Created attachment 3322 [details] dmesg from 2.6.7-bk20 (compare with original bugreport -- same host)
Still getting the text below on 2.6.8.1. :( Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f5230 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x5e1a, dseg 0xf0000 PNPBIOS fault.. attempting recovery. PnPBIOS: Warning! Your PnP BIOS caused a fatal error. Attempting to continue PnPBIOS: You may need to reboot with the "nobiospnp" option to operate stably PnPBIOS: Check with your vendor for an updated BIOS PnPBIOS: get_dev_node: unexpected status 0x28 PnPBIOS: 12 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 12 recorded by driver
Robert Moore from intel said to me in an email thread spawned from http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2802, where is latest dmesg output from 2.6.8.1+acpi-patch kernel: It sounds as though the PNP bios issue is related to the problem below. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martin MOKREJ
Created attachment 3802 [details] dmesg-2.6.9-rc4 dmesg-2.6.9-rc4
Not a problem anymore with recent kernels, for example 2.6.13.