[openib-general] EEH: MMIO Failure on Power5

Roland Dreier rolandd at cisco.com
Tue Sep 20 11:01:18 PDT 2005


    Pradeep> We did see some similar issues on a p570 (and yes I have
    Pradeep> heard others report no problems on 710 systems). The
    Pradeep> work-around that we discovered was to not load the IB
    Pradeep> modules at boot time. Suspect there could be some
    Pradeep> sequencing issue that Roland points out.

This is really interesting.  Is there any way you can interpret the
EEH information to find out what is going wrong?

>From what you're saying, it sounds like the mthca module is being
loaded before the ppc64 PCI core code is done setting up, which sounds
like a bug in the kernel that we would want to fix.

Thanks,
  Roland



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