From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: "Ruslan N. Marchenko" <me@ruff.mobi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Regression in 2fdac010 drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c: update napi implementation
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:54:06 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309301353150.2036@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130930071531.GA13037@ruff.mobi>
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Ruslan N. Marchenko wrote:
> Hi Julia et al.,
>
> With this commit VIA NANO board get CPU lockup in random places on any network activity.
> The error is random, most of the times dead locked CPU on boot.
>
> After loading via-velocity module it hangs for a while and then spits kernel mesages
> about hanged tasks from varios places - like ata, rcu_preempt or network stack.
> Also, if you boot the box with network disconnected - it works, until you plug the network cable.
>
> On some kernel builds (like ubuntu stock) behaviour varies, sometimes the box itself works,
> but network stack dies after multiple ICMPv6 skb errors, so box ends up with network disconnected.
> Reloading network susbsys helps to recover for some time (depending on how fast eth led is blinking).
>
> Reverting the patch allows me to boot without problems even from latest Linus trunk and send this mail.
You can find the discussion and improved patch in this thread:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg251287.html
Bug - regression - Via velocity interface coming up freezes kernel
From: Dirk Kraft <dirk.kraft@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:28:52 +0200
julia
>
> Regards,
> Ruslan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-30 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-30 7:15 Ruslan N. Marchenko
2013-09-30 11:43 ` Julia Lawall
2013-10-01 22:45 ` Francois Romieu
2013-09-30 11:54 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2013-09-30 13:54 ` Ruslan N. Marchenko
2013-10-01 6:29 ` Ruslan N. Marchenko
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