Re: Sudden kernel panic with skge in 3.3-rc2

From: Nick Bowler
Date: Fri Feb 03 2012 - 14:28:33 EST


Hi Stephen,

On 2012-02-02 12:45 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:21:15 -0500
> Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I just saw this panic on 3.3-rc2 with skge. I don't know whether it's
> > reproducible yet -- the machine crashed while I was not actively using
> > it. We've had this type of card for a few years and I've never seen this
> > before so it may be a regression, but admittedly we don't use them all
> > that often.
[...]
>
> Try reverting this commit, it seems problematic
> commit d0249e44432aa0ffcf710b64449b8eaa3722547e
> Author: stephen hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Jan 19 14:37:18 2012 +0000
>
> skge: check for PCI dma mapping errors

Thanks for the pointer, I'll try that. Unfortunately some other stuff
has come up so I probably won't be able to test it until next week.

Cheers,
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)

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