From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933859AbXJOT5m (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:57:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932605AbXJOT52 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:57:28 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46177 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932924AbXJOT50 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:57:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20071015.125731.79447899.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() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20071015112430.GA30006@elte.hu> References: <20071015112430.GA30006@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar 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?