Bug 4556

Summary: kernel panics with dc-100/highpoint 372 ide controller
Product: IO/Storage Reporter: Tobias Margitan (t.margitan)
Component: IDEAssignee: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (bzolnier)
Status: REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA    
Severity: normal CC: bunk
Priority: P2    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.11 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:

Description Tobias Margitan 2005-04-28 15:24:58 UTC 
Distribution: Gentoo Linux 2005.0
Hardware Environment: Asus CUR-DLS Dual P3 / Serverworks Chip + Highpoint 372
softraid crap controller
Software Environment: 2.6.11, actual gentoo ~x86 tree
Problem Description: since 2.6.8 I get Kernel Panics in module hpt372 wich is
included in hpt366 driver

Steps to reproduce:
Since I use that controller due to unstabilities just as normal ide controller I
got no more trouble. But 2.6.7 was the las kernel that was able to bring hpt372
up. I dont need to boot from that device but my storage HDDs are on its line.
What I can see from the error is this, although there is quite more above that.
Screen begins with:

Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=dffc1000 task=dffc0a40)
Stack: c0311375... <many more 8bit columns>
Call Trace: [<c0311375>] hpt372_tune_chipset+0xd5/0x160
next in call trace are more ide and htp related things connected to the stack
numbers
Code: ff 85 c0 ba... and more of 2 bit code
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

and thats the point where I have to go with the reset button and be happy my
2.6.7 still exists :/

thanks for reading
Comment 1 Tobias Margitan 2005-04-28 15:30:16 UTC 
There were added three patches to the sources described in here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.8
just search the changelog for "hpt" and you'll find.
is it possible to undo that patches? at least one of them has to cause the errors...
Comment 2 Adrian Bunk 2006-01-27 12:28:29 UTC 
What's the status of this issue in kernel 2.6.16-rc1?
Comment 3 Tobias Margitan 2006-01-27 14:28:12 UTC 
sorry i dont have further information, because i replaced the hardware, the
hpt372 device didnt work properly anymore.