Re: e1000e NVM corruption issue status

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Friday, September 26, 2008 4:49 am Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> >> this is the current set of patches that I have to help us debug
> >> and/or fix e1000e issues found during this debug effort for
> >> the corrupt NVM.  the "drop stats lock" - "reset swflag" patches allow
> >> Thomas' patch for a mutex in the SWFLAG acquire function to run without
> >> any errors.
> >
> > Thanks. Also Jesse Barnes' patch shouldn't be forgotten, could you please
> > add it to that lineup?
> >
> > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122237193628087&w=2
>
> can we (for now) also stick a WARN_ON() into that failure path? that way we
> can at least catch if/when this happens more visibly..... if it happens
> consistently in say the new distros we can be more confident that we're
> down the right path in diagnosing the issue.

I'm spinning a new one now with some debug output, stay tuned (just gotta boot 
my test box).

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center