[ofw] Ibinstaller.cpp - ideas why SetupDiInstallDevice() would fail& crash IA64 win2k system?

Leonid Keller leonid at mellanox.co.il
Thu Aug 16 10:09:03 PDT 2007


Stan,

have you received my previous mail with a suggestion of a fix ?
I attach it for any case.
Hope, it helps.

Leonid

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Stan [mailto:stan.smith at intel.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:29 PM
> To: Leonid Keller; Tziporet Koren; Erez Cohen; Ishai Rabinovitz
> Cc: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: RE: [ofw] Ibinstaller.cpp - ideas why 
> SetupDiInstallDevice() would fail& crash IA64 win2k system?
> 
> Thank you to all who responded.
> 
> Tzachi Dar responded earlier this week and I sent him 
> relevant trace information; see enclosed email.
> 
> I was initially incorrect in my assessment of the failing 
> component, the real offender is
> ibbus!ib_fixup_ca_attr() as it casts a (uchar*) into a struct 
> pointer which is unaligned for IA64 - KaBoom!
> 
> Waiting to hear from Tzachi on resolution or additional debug info.
> 
> The openib-windows IA64 driver install failure count is now 4 
> out of 4 attempts; the gentleman who thought he installed 
> WinOF on IA64, uninstalled, reinstalled and stepped into the 
> same ibbus crash.
> Loading the IA64 mthca/ibbus driver manually will generate 
> the same crash; WinOF is not the culprit.
> 
> Stan.
> 
> 
> Leonid Keller wrote:
> > Could you build checked drivers, reinstall under WinDbg and 
> show the 
> > trace (!analyze -v) of the crash ?
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org 
> >> [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Smith, Stan
> >> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:11 AM
> >> To: Tziporet Koren
> >> Cc: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> >> Subject: [ofw] Ibinstaller.cpp - ideas why
> >> SetupDiInstallDevice() would fail& crash IA64 win2k system?
> >> 
> >> Hello,
> >>   3 out of 4 Windows Server 2003 SP1 IA64 systems after a fresh OS 
> >> install blue-screen crash when ibbus.sys (svn.614) loads? DbgView 
> >> shows the call to SetupDiInstallDevice failing...
> >> 
> >> Recent head of svn tree (751) exhibits the same behavior for IA64.
> >> 
> >> Any idea's ?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Stan.
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