Re: Kernel panic from tg3 net driver

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Oct 20 2011 - 15:57:34 EST


From: Ari Savolainen <ari.m.savolainen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:30:44 +0300

> I finally got time to continue bisecting. The commit that causes the
> kernel panic is: 2669069aacc9 "tg3: enable transmit time stamping."

I thought initially that the issue might be that we have to do the
skb_tx_timestamp() call before we advance the mailbox transmit
descriptor pointer.

But that shouldn't matter, we run with a lock held, and TX reclaim takes
that same lock.

So I'm sort of stumped at the moment.

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