Kernel panic - r8169 on 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

Kernel panic - r8169 on 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

[Cameron Harris]

Every time i try to use eth1 which is r8169, i get a kernel panic, but
on the actual use of it, not the configuring it.

e.g.
laptop ~ # ifconfig eth1 up 192.168.1.1

laptop ~ # ping 192.168.1.2

PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data.

Oops: 0000 [#1]

Modules linked in: snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_oss
seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device irtty_sir sir_dev irda pcspkr
snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer

snd snd_page_alloc wlan_wep fglrx sis_agp psmouse r8169 ath_pci
ath_rate_onoe wlan ath_hal

CPU:	0

EIP:	0060:[<d15481e5>]	Tainted: P	VLI

EFLAGS:	00010206	(2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

EIP is at rtl8169_start_xmit+0x55/0x2b0 [r8169]

eax: 0000003f	ebx: cf236140 	ecx: cc9c6000	edx: 00000000

esi: cf236240	edi: cfd9b280	ebp: cfd9b280	esp: c0685e00

ds: 007b	es: 007b 	ss: 0068

Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c0684000 task=c05b6ba0)

Stack: c0107e50 cf236140 cf935080 cfd9b280 00000000 d14da000 cc9c6000 00000000

       80000000 cf236140 cf935080 cf236000 cfd9b280 c049141e cfd9b280 cf236000

       00000000 00000000 cf236000 cfd9b280 cf236140 c048387f cf236000 cf935080

....

 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

I never had time to write down the whole stack trace (and there was no
core file created)
This driver used to work in a previous kernel version (but it did get
IRQ #x nobody cared messages, usually when there was some sort of a
disconnection of my ethernet cable for whatever reason). This is
always reproducable.

uname -a:
Linux laptop 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 #2 SMP Sun Jan 16 22:36:26 GMT 2005 i686
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I would try a newer kernel, but the command line options for
specifying the framebuffer settings seems to have changed in the
latest kernel and i haven't had enough time to work out how to specify
it.
-- 
Cameron Harris

Re: Kernel panic - r8169 on 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

[Francois Romieu]

Cameron Harris <thecwin@gmail.com> :
[r8169 crash]
> Linux laptop 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 #2 SMP Sun Jan 16 22:36:26 GMT 2005 i686
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]
> I would try a newer kernel, but the command line options for
> specifying the framebuffer settings seems to have changed in the
> latest kernel and i haven't had enough time to work out how to specify
> it.

If you can not upgrade the kernel, I can not do anything for you since
several fixes went in after 2.6.11-rc1-mm1.

Regarding your r8169 issue, I suggest:
1) download linux kernel 2.6.12-rc1
2) apply on top of it:
   http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.11/r8169/patches/r8169-570.patch
3) avoid the proprietary tainting module

Please Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com for issues related to network drivers.

--
Ueimor