Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751393AbWEOEKw (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 00:10:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751403AbWEOEKv (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 00:10:51 -0400 Received: from hqemgate02.nvidia.com ([216.228.112.143]:21557 "EHLO HQEMGATE02.nvidia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751393AbWEOEKv (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 00:10:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4466E2E8.7090801@nvidia.com> Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 03:57:28 -0400 From: Ayaz Abdulla User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alistair John Strachan CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Manfred Spraul Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.17-rc4 References: <200605122219.37626.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200605122219.37626.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> X-NVConfidentiality: public Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 May 2006 04:10:18.0796 (UTC) FILETIME=[7A2A26C0:01C677D5] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1643 Lines: 45 Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Friday 12 May 2006 00:44, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>Ok, I've let the release time between -rc's slide a bit too much again, >>but -rc4 is out there, and this is the time to hunker down for 2.6.17. >> >>If you know of any regressions, please holler now, so that we don't miss >>them. >> >>-rc4 itself is mainly random driver fixes (sound, infiniband, scsi, >>network drivers), but some splice fixes too and some arch (arm, powerpc, >>mips) updates. Shortlog follows, > > > Linus, > > I've got an oops in the forcedeth driver on shutdown. Sorry for the crappy > camera phone pictures, this board doesn't have RS232 ports: > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops-20060512/ > > It was initially difficult to reproduce, but I found I could do so reliably if > I ssh'ed into the box and halted it remotely, then it would always oops on > shutdown. I assume this is because the driver is still active when something > happens to it during halt. > > There's been just a single commit since -rc3: > > forcedeth: fix multi irq issues > ebf34c9b6fcd22338ef764b039b3ac55ed0e297b > > However, it could have just been hidden since before -rc3, so I'll try to work > backwards if nobody has any immediate ideas.. > The interrupt handler could be called during the same time (on different cpu) the dev->stop function is clearing out the rings (nv_txrx_reset). - 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/