Kernel Panic during installation of RHEL 6.5 on servers with Mellanox mlx4 based NIC

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Issue

  • When installing the OS on servers with a Mellanox NIC, the installer (Anaconda) goes into kernel panic at the stage of loading mlx4_en.
  • Backtrace may show a hang in mlx4_en_ptp_overflow_check+0x44

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • Mellanox NIC
  • mlx4_en module

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