Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755152AbYJBS71 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:59:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754249AbYJBS7H (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:59:07 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:60127 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754206AbYJBS7G (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:59:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:58:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Olaf Kirch cc: "Brandeburg, Jesse" , Jiri Kosina , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org, kkeil@suse.de, agospoda@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, "Graham, David" , "Allan, Bruce W" , "Ronciak, John" , chris.jones@canonical.com, tim.gardner@intel.com, airlied@gmail.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/12] e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG In-Reply-To: <200810021933.23677.okir@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20080930030825.22950.18891.stgit@jbrandeb-bw.jf.intel.com> <200810021703.43770.okir@suse.de> <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F52064FB25C@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com> <200810021933.23677.okir@suse.de> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 977 Lines: 21 On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Olaf Kirch wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2008 18:27:12 Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > > so, why now? Drivers since before the e1000/e1000e split had this same > > code, with no reports of problems. This code has been heavily tested, > > and one of the platforms easily reproducing this has been available for > > 3 years now (ich8), with code that is basically unchanged in the driver. > > Possibly the dhcp client is doing something differently, or at a much higher > frequency. At any rate, it seems we're seeing this now even when we just > use init level 3, without X involvement. Karsten reports NVM corruption > after 34 reboots into init level 3. Had Karsten the mutex patch applied or not ? tglx -- 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/