Re: Sudden kernel panic with skge in 3.3-rc2

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Mon Feb 06 2012 - 19:18:00 EST


On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:11:27 -0500
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> I'm seeing similar issues, and a revert of the above caused the
> problems to go away. I'm testing on a baseline of net-next
> as of today (3238a9be4d7a) plus some TIPC patches I was
> trying to test (which are 99.9% unrelated to this, I'm sure).
>
> Details captured from serial console are below. 100% reproducible.
>
> I can probably try a test/debug patch for you if need be.
>
> Paul.

There is a simple bug in the cleanup code reordering. And it is
reproducible here. Working on a better solution.
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