Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755316AbYJBTHn (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:07:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755009AbYJBTH2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:07:28 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39820 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754921AbYJBTH1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:07:27 -0400 From: Olaf Kirch Organization: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH To: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/12] e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:07:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 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 References: <20080930030825.22950.18891.stgit@jbrandeb-bw.jf.intel.com> <200810021933.23677.okir@suse.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810022107.23487.okir@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 28 On Thursday 02 October 2008 20:58:43 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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 ? That was openSuse 11.1 without any patches Olaf -- Neo didn't bring down the Matrix. SOA did. --soafacts.com -- 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/