2008-10-18 19:25:27

by James Courtier-Dutton

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Subject: Re: e1000e NVM corruption issue status

Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
>
> Many of the reports seem to be related in time to a graphics crash, no one
> has been able to give us more detail about how to reproduce. We NEED HELP
> reproducing this. Steps, hints, anything. We are trying rebooting,
> suspending, opensuse, fedora, ubuntu, and several hardware platforms, etc.
>

I would suspect the ipv6 module instead of the graphics. It has a number
of bugs in it. I am just mentioning it in case it helps.

Kind Regards

James



2008-10-18 22:49:21

by Jiri Kosina

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Subject: Re: e1000e NVM corruption issue status

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> > Many of the reports seem to be related in time to a graphics crash, no one
> > has been able to give us more detail about how to reproduce. We NEED HELP
> > reproducing this. Steps, hints, anything. We are trying rebooting,
> > suspending, opensuse, fedora, ubuntu, and several hardware platforms, etc.
> I would suspect the ipv6 module instead of the graphics. It has a number
> of bugs in it. I am just mentioning it in case it helps.

The culprit of the bug has already been identified. It has been
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs