> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:03:21 +0300 Plamen Petrov<pvp-lsts@fs.uni-ruse.bg> wrote:
>
>> (responding via emailed reply-to-all)
>>
>> ____ 20.8.2010 __. 01:21, Andrew Morton ____________:
>>>
>>> (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the
>>> bugzilla web interface).
>>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:57:25 GMT
>>>
bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
>>>
>>>>
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16626
>>>>
>>>> Summary: Machine hangs with EIP at skb_copy_and_csum_dev
>>>> Product: Drivers
>>>> Version: 2.5
>>>> Kernel Version: 2.6.36-rc1-00127-g763008c
>>>> Platform: All
>>>> OS/Version: Linux
>>>> Tree: Mainline
>>>> Status: NEW
>>>> Severity: blocking
>>>> Priority: P1
>>>> Component: PCI
>>>> AssignedTo:
drivers_pci@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
>>>> ReportedBy:
pvp-lsts@fs.uni-ruse.bg
>>>> Regression: Yes
>>>
>>> A post-2.6.35 regression.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> After upgrade from 2.6.33.7 to 2.6.35.2 a server hanged twice, so
>>>> continued on 2.6.33.7.
>>>>
>>>> Today decided to try lates Linus' tree with no luck.
>>>>
>>>> The first time I started on 2.6.36-rc1-00127-g763008c it ran for a few
>>>> minutes, then whent dead with this on the screen:
>>>> [picture 1]
>>>>
http://picpaste.com/9cfb03116d41f27568e1bb2a67b7f4dc.jpg
>>>>
>>>> [picture 2]
>>>> Then I power-cycled the machine, only two get this:
>>>>
http://picpaste.com/6d70f453e462d1aed038781ad4bdb741.jpg
>>>>
>>>> And because [picture 2] seemed too bad on the lower half of the screen,
>>>> here is
>>>> [picture 3]
>>>>
http://picpaste.com/0a51ae079ace2e4abd9e9d29226069f7.jpg
>>>
>>> Might have triggered the BUG_ON() in skb_copy_and_csum_dev(). Might be
>>> a tg3 thing. Hard to tell.
>>>
>>> It'd be really nice to get that first screenful. Sigh. How long have
>>> we had this oops-scrolls-off problem?? Perhaps you could set
>>> /proc/sys/kernel/printk_delay to 100 (it's in milliseconds) so that the
>>> oops scrolls past nice and slowly?
>>>
>> So you need the begining of the oops screen - I will try to get that
>> with the proposed pirntk_delay setting.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> But wich kernel should I use? Linus' latest tree or 2.6.35.2 ? They
>> both fail the same way here, as far as I can say.
>
> Current mainline would be best, because we'd fix the bug there first
> then backport the fix into -stable. But it doesn't matter a lot in
> this case - whatever's most convenient for you, I'd say.
>