Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755999AbXJLDEL (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:04:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755730AbXJLDDv (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:03:51 -0400 Received: from smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.219]:21979 "HELO smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755767AbXJLDDu (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:03:50 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=0asSqmPxm882oYJF84CaPJhoev3rFizNAwjfi5fMQoAdzv4rbeUB3oNlgYOuqVBx0T8oF+ET2RVYbNiisWSt+5rVFPV3Ltre+miDPNM+aF5sjRjCoqBjNwAA5DTkKRFLLYxcQdPaJ3IpZTIrTQ0zVnrh6que6+WziC73hLnoK4g= ; X-YMail-OSG: C8wNqPYVM1mpiIYLh0847uMV6LjoWR63lhWex26VU4z8T.7AwRnjLrQCsEBg6kkDXtw4zWB2gw-- From: Nick Piggin To: "Mr. Berkley Shands" , Ayaz Abdulla , linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.23 spinlock hang in kswapd under heavy disk write loads Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:32:07 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <470E4E02.4000504@exegy.com> In-Reply-To: <470E4E02.4000504@exegy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710112032.07717.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 27 On Friday 12 October 2007 02:23, Mr. Berkley Shands wrote: > With DEBUG_SLAB on, I can run only a very short time under 2.6.23 > before a kernel panic. > > [ 626.028180] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. > [ 626.167583] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. > [ 626.206729] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. > [ 626.400171] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. > [ 626.446374] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. > > followed by the crash at > forcedeth:nv_nic_irq_optimized+0x89 > handle_IRQ_event+0x25 > handle_edge_IRQ+0xe3 > do_IRQ OK, thanks. Probably we should try to fix this problem before attempting the more elusive looking corruption. CC'ed forcedeth maintainer and netdev. Can you reiterate what your hardware is (including lspci)? - 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/