* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

quoted text
> > > Can you check kind of this patch:
> > 
> > The call even seems pointless, since the caller will call ->poll() 
> > (which is e1000_clean) as the very next action, and that will invoke 
> > e1000_clean_tx_irq() properly.
> > 
> > I would just delete this call from e1000_netpoll() entirely.
> 
> ok, i've added the patch below to tip/out-of-tree.
> 
> Overnight test had about 100 successful bootups on this testbox. 
> (until it stopped on a drivers/net/hp.c build error - which is 
> unrelated to this problem)
> 
> So testing with netconsole disabled is conclusive enough to implicate 
> netconsole strongly. I've now re-enabled netconsole on the testbox and 
> will continue the test with the fix below. Previously it would crash 
> within 10-40 iterations.

it's now past 50 successful iterations with e1000e+netconsole enabled 
again with the fix applied, and not a single crash, hang, memory 
corruption or other weirdness happened. Jeff, please apply the fix 
below.

Thanks,

	Ingo

---------------->
commit 1fd48807674d4f6defe82258c46619ce2c116943
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date:   Tue Jul 22 09:44:32 2008 +0200

    e1000e: fix e1000_netpoll(), remove extraneous e1000_clean_tx_irq() call
    
    Evgeniy Polyakov noticed that drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c:e1000_netpoll()
    was calling e1000_clean_tx_irq() without taking the TX lock.
    
    David Miller suggested to remove the call altogether: since in this
    callpah there's periodic calls to ->poll() anyway which will do
    e1000_clean_tx_irq() and will garbage-collect any finished TX ring
    descriptors.
    
    This fix solved the e1000e+netconsole crashes i've been seeing:
    
    =============================================================================
    BUG skbuff_head_cache: Poison overwritten
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    INFO: 0xf658ae9c-0xf658ae9c. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b
    INFO: Allocated in __alloc_skb+0x2c/0x110 age=0 cpu=0 pid=5098
    INFO: Freed in __kfree_skb+0x31/0x80 age=0 cpu=1 pid=4440
    INFO: Slab 0xc16cc140 objects=16 used=1 fp=0xf658ae00 flags=0x400000c3
    INFO: Object 0xf658ae00 @offset=3584 fp=0xf658af00
    
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
index 869544b..9c0f56b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -4067,8 +4067,6 @@ static void e1000_netpoll(struct net_device *netdev)
 	disable_irq(adapter->pdev->irq);
 	e1000_intr(adapter->pdev->irq, netdev);
 
-	e1000_clean_tx_irq(adapter);
-
 	enable_irq(adapter->pdev->irq);
 }
 #endif
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