On Friday, September 26, 2008 4:49 am Arjan van de Ven wrote:

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> Jiri Kosina wrote:

> > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:

> >> this is the current set of patches that I have to help us debug

> >> and/or fix e1000e issues found during this debug effort for

> >> the corrupt NVM.  the "drop stats lock" - "reset swflag" patches allow

> >> Thomas' patch for a mutex in the SWFLAG acquire function to run without

> >> any errors.

> >

> > Thanks. Also Jesse Barnes' patch shouldn't be forgotten, could you please

> > add it to that lineup?

> >

> > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122237193628087&w=2

>

> can we (for now) also stick a WARN_ON() into that failure path? that way we

> can at least catch if/when this happens more visibly..... if it happens

> consistently in say the new distros we can be more confident that we're

> down the right path in diagnosing the issue.

I'm spinning a new one now with some debug output, stay tuned (just gotta boot

my test box).
--

Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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