Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758126AbYB0T3U (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:29:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756315AbYB0T3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:29:13 -0500 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:51329 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756756AbYB0T3M (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:29:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:29:08 +0200 (EET) From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ilpo_J=E4rvinen?=" X-X-Sender: ijjarvin@kivilampi-30.cs.helsinki.fi To: Guillaume Chazarain cc: Giangiacomo Mariotti , LKML , Netdev , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: WARNING: at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2054 tcp_mark_head_lost() In-Reply-To: <3d8471ca0802271056l320a7ee2m5227e114a968d483@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <858077.97160.qm@web39709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080223000310.4630daa8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <3d8471ca0802271056l320a7ee2m5227e114a968d483@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/Mixed; boundary="=_courier-8386-1204138613-0001-2" Content-ID: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1693 Lines: 48 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --=_courier-8386-1204138613-0001-2 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-ID: Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Guillaume Chazarain wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Ilpo J?rvinen > wrote: > > I did in the past a debug patch > > that verifies TCP's write queue state by the hard way, ie., by > > bruteforce > > walking often enough to catch inconsistencies early enough to find > > out > > the root cause. > > Are you talking about this one: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119482084511178 ? > I attached a forward port to current git. No, I'd much more complete set of tests than in that one. > I am using this patch, and caught this maybe related error while > Bittorrenting: > > KERNEL: assertion (packets <= tp->packets_out) failed at > /home/g/linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c (2145) > KERNEL: assertion (packets <= tp->packets_out) failed at > /home/g/linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c (2145) > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: at /home/g/linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2515 > tcp_fastretrans_alert+0xa5/0xa4f() You seem to be good in catching these... :-) -- i. --=_courier-8386-1204138613-0001-2-- -- 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/