* Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:55:55PM +0200, Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> > > > I could try run tests with netconsole deactivated, if you think 
> > > > that's a worthwile line of probing this problem. (although that 
> > > > would make me do blind tests in essence - having kernel log output 
> > > > is really essential.)
> > > 
> > > Let's try this way first. If system will continue to crash, we will 
> > > add some debug options in various pathes. Existing reports do not 
> > > contain enough information unfortunately, so we will not lose too 
> > > much.
> > 
> > ok. I've turned off netconsole - 8 successful bootups in a row so far. 
> > The box is a slow booter/builder with an 8 kernels/hour test throughput, 
> > so if everything goes fine we should have meaningful results in about 10 
> > hours.
> > 
> > ( there are other, faster testboxes in -tip testing with 33 kernels/hour 
> >   build+boot throughput where we'd have to wait only 2 hours - but as 
> >   per Murphy's law they dont trigger this bug ;-)
> 
> Since 2.6.25 there was only single change in netpoll.c:
> f5184d267c1aedb9b7a8cc44e08ff6b8d382c3b5
> Which looks innocent.
> 
> Is your driver e1000 or e1000e? Can you check different one?

i cannot check e1000 anymore due to this upstream commit:

| d03157babed7424f5391af43200593768ce69c9a is first bad commit
| commit d03157babed7424f5391af43200593768ce69c9a
| Author: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
| Date:   Sun Jun 22 15:21:29 2008 -0700
|
|    e1000: remove PCI Express device IDs
|
|    We do not want to prolong the situation much longer that e1000
|    and e1000e support these devices at the same time. As a result,
|    take out the bandage that was added for the interim period
|    and remove all the PCI Express device IDs from e1000.

but yes, this box was using e1000 for a long time, and recently migrated 
to e1000e. I'm not sure there's any connection, do you think there is?

	Ingo
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