Re: [RFC PATCH 07/12] e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG

[Olaf Kirch]

On Thursday 02 October 2008 20:58:43 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 02 October 2008 18:27:12 Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> > > so, why now?  Drivers since before the e1000/e1000e split had this same
> > > code, with no reports of problems.  This code has been heavily tested,
> > > and one of the platforms easily reproducing this has been available for
> > > 3 years now (ich8), with code that is basically unchanged in the driver.
> > 
> > Possibly the dhcp client is doing something differently, or at a much higher
> > frequency. At any rate, it seems we're seeing this now even when we just
> > use init level 3, without X involvement. Karsten reports NVM corruption
> > after 34 reboots into init level 3.
> 
> Had Karsten the mutex patch applied or not ?

That was openSuse 11.1 without any patches

Olaf
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