Bug 3466 – gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7 causes kernel panic when probing PCI hardware

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description José Fonseca 2002-06-06 20:13:06 UTC]

When compiling the gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7 kernel, with exactly the same
settings of gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r5 I get a kernel panic. 

The last message is "PCI: Probing PCI Hardware". 

The stack trace (manually feeded into ksymoops) is:

  >>EIP; c02ba39f <pirq_peer_trick+9f/d0>   <=====

  Trace; c01fa72c <pci_init+c/60>
  Trace; c0105085 <init+25/1a0>
  Trace; c0105000 <_stext+0/0>
  Trace; c010772e <kernel_thread+2e/40>
  Trace; c0105060 <init+0/1a0>

On a normal boot the next message would be "PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
".

My hardware is a Toshiba Satellite 1700 laptop, with a Intel Pentium III
celeron, and a Intel PIIX4 chipset.

[Comment 1 Olaf Mersmann 2002-06-17 23:00:20 UTC]

I have the same behavior here on a Sony VAIO PCG-GRX316. Turning off ACPI fixes 
this. I assume it is due to the new (unstable) ACPI code.

[Comment 2 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-09-05 21:25:14 UTC]

Dan, can this be tested with 2.4.19-gentoo-r9?  (or do you NEED the ACPI 
patch?) thanks.

[Comment 3 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2002-09-07 06:57:43 UTC]

This problem went away with -r9 (and other kernels like mjc's, gentoo-r8, etc.) 
It only manifested with gentoo-r7. 
 
As to acpi, the one in gentoo-r9 (I recognize it by drivers/acpi/tables/tbget.c 
being revision 56) works best for me. I have to apply a manual patch to any 
kernel I use anyway beacuse of bios breakage in my laptop (dsdt retreiving 
fails, I have to hardcode my dsdt data into the kernel and change tbget.c 
appropriately). 

[Comment 4 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-09-19 02:49:38 UTC]

I'm going to close this for now, if the problem is still there, of course reopen
it... also, with a bit of luck the next gentoo-sources will have acpi4linux
again which might re-break this and again require this bug re-opened ... ... ...

[Comment 5 José Fonseca 2002-09-30 09:46:53 UTC]

Unfortunately enabling ACPI on r9 seems to lock hard the machine...