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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	shemminger@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:2161 net_rx_action()
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:57:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071015.125731.79447899.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071015112430.GA30006@elte.hu>

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:24:30 +0200

> got this warning with Linus' latest -git tree:
> 
>   WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:2161 net_rx_action()
>    [<80564db4>] net_rx_action+0xce/0x186
>    [<8011ba98>] __do_softirq+0x6c/0xcf
>    [<8011bb2d>] do_softirq+0x32/0x36
>    [<8011bcae>] irq_exit+0x35/0x40
>    [<80104fdb>] do_IRQ+0x5c/0x71
>    [<801048cd>] do_nmi+0x8f/0x238
>    [<801033a3>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x30
>    =======================

This is a driver bug, the work "budget" passed into a driver's
->poll() handler should never be exceeded.  That's what this
warning assertion is checking.

What ethernet card is in your system and what driver is being
used to drive it?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-15 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-15 11:24 Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 11:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 16:18   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 19:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-10-15 22:03   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 22:07     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 22:21       ` David Miller
2007-10-15 22:30       ` [patch] forcedeth: fix the NAPI poll function Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 22:39         ` David Miller
2007-10-15 22:40         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-15 22:41           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16  5:42           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-16  5:47             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16  6:40               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-16  7:17                 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16  7:49                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-16 16:52                     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16 21:20         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-17  7:25           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-17 10:18             ` [patch] forcedeth: fix the NAPI poll function, take #2 Ingo Molnar
2007-10-18  0:21               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-15 22:18     ` WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:2161 net_rx_action() David Miller
2007-10-15 22:20     ` Jeff Garzik

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