With built-in netconsole and IXGBE, configuring netconsole via the kernel cmdline results in the following panic at boot:
netpoll: netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci ixgbe 0000:03:00.0: registered PHC device on eth0 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000810 <snip> Call Trace: [<ffffffff81578661>] ? vxlan_get_rx_port+0x41/0xa0 [<ffffffff81586828>] ixgbe_open+0x4e8/0x540 [<ffffffff8168045c>] __dev_open+0xac/0x120 [<ffffffff81680506>] dev_open+0x36/0x70 [<ffffffff8169abec>] netpoll_setup+0x23c/0x300 [<ffffffff8169a66a>] ? netpoll_parse_options+0x19a/0x200 [<ffffffff81d797a8>] ? option_setup+0x1f/0x1f [<ffffffff81d79882>] init_netconsole+0xda/0x262 [<ffffffff81d797a8>] ? option_setup+0x1f/0x1f [<ffffffff810003a8>] do_one_initcall+0x88/0x1b0 [<ffffffff81d31144>] kernel_init_freeable+0x14a/0x1e3 [<ffffffff81d308f1>] ? do_early_param+0x8c/0x8c [<ffffffff81778610>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80 [<ffffffff8177861e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xe0 [<ffffffff8177dc5f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 [<ffffffff81778610>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80 This happens because IXGBE assumes that vxlan has already been initialized. The cleanest way to fix this is to just initialize netconsole after all the other core networking stuff has completed. Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinow...@fb.com> --- drivers/net/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/Makefile b/drivers/net/Makefile index 900b0c5..31557d0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Makefile +++ b/drivers/net/Makefile @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MACVTAP) += macvtap.o obj-$(CONFIG_MII) += mii.o obj-$(CONFIG_MDIO) += mdio.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET) += Space.o loopback.o -obj-$(CONFIG_NETCONSOLE) += netconsole.o obj-$(CONFIG_PHYLIB) += phy/ obj-$(CONFIG_RIONET) += rionet.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET_TEAM) += team/ @@ -26,6 +25,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VXLAN) += vxlan.o obj-$(CONFIG_GENEVE) += geneve.o obj-$(CONFIG_NLMON) += nlmon.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VRF) += vrf.o +obj-$(CONFIG_NETCONSOLE) += netconsole.o # # Networking Drivers -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/