Re: How do I track TG3 peculiarities?

From: Andreas Dilger
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 23:12:01 EST


On Sep 07, 2003 16:21 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Below is one good oops we have captured. I would have to check but
> I believe we have updated the tg3 driver in this instance to the
> one that comes with 2.4.23-pre3.
>
> The very puzzling part is that in the crashes I don't see the tg3
> driver at all just the network stack. All module addresses according
> to /proc/ksyms started with at 0xf8, and the tg3 driver was built as
> a module.
>
> I have been having trouble understanding why skb_clone would be called
> to transmit a packet. Any ideas?

Do you have the stack overflow checking enabled? That has been a source
of problems for us. It was especially difficult to reproduce, because it
only happened during a double interrupt.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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