Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756231AbaF3Mol (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:44:41 -0400 Received: from mail6.autoliv.com ([195.33.130.243]:41193 "EHLO mail6.autoliv.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754839AbaF3MbC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:31:02 -0400 From: Fredrik Noring To: Russell King - ARM Linux CC: Mattis Lorentzon , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: RE: Oops: 17 SMP ARM (v3.16-rc2) Thread-Topic: Oops: 17 SMP ARM (v3.16-rc2) Thread-Index: Ac+QeuMIv4ry9FBDTNKHf1ccZ0ioqQAu3GGAAAUkuuD//+tKAIABUVuA//+RU9CAAMUXAP/7a+yw Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 12:30:57 +0000 Message-ID: <3FFB61A7A8473C49831AF20FA193534A43CB69F6@ALVA-EXMB01.alv.autoliv.int> References: <20140626140115.GQ32514@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140626151424.GT32514@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140627112151.GF32514@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <3FFB61A7A8473C49831AF20FA193534A43CADFA7@ALVA-EXMB01.alv.autoliv.int> <20140627163108.GP32514@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140627163108.GP32514@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.14.8.136] x-tm-as-product-ver: SMEX-10.2.0.2087-7.500.1017-20788.006 x-tm-as-result: No--40.228100-8.000000-31 x-tm-as-user-approved-sender: No x-tm-as-user-blocked-sender: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Russell, It seems to be a compiler issue, where (GCC) 4.8.2 does not produce a properly working kernel. Happily, (Fedora 2013.11.24-2.fc19) 4.8.1 appears to do a lot better. No crashes so far with v3.16-rc2! All the best, Fredrik > -----Original Message----- > Hi Fredrik, > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:16:57PM +0000, Fredrik Noring wrote: > > Please find below a trace that appeared once with 3.16-rc2. Perhaps it > > is of some interest? > > It's not that serious... I know that the FEC ethernet driver is horrendously > racy (I have had a patch set for about the last six months which fixes some of > its problems) but as I've had a lot of patches to deal with, and it's been > pushed to the back of the queue... > > The races don't lead to data corruption though, merely timeouts and some > lost packets. > > Now because things have changed during the last merge window, I've got an > even bigger problem sorting through that patch set and getting it back into a > submittable state. I've just sent out v2 for it onto the > netdev@vger.kernel.org mailing list. > > The initial version (marked RFC) attracted very little interest from testers, or > acks. I'd very much like to have some testing of it, so if you want to try it > out, I can provide you with a git URL, patches or a combined patch. > > -- > FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly > improving, and getting towards what was expected from it. *************************************************************** Consider the environment before printing this message. To read Autoliv's Information and Confidentiality Notice, follow this link: http://www.autoliv.com/disclaimer.html *************************************************************** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/