On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Ruslan N. Marchenko wrote: > Hi Julia et al., > > With this commit VIA NANO board get CPU lockup in random places on any > network activity. > The error is random, most of the times dead locked CPU on boot. > > After loading via-velocity module it hangs for a while and then spits kernel > mesages > about hanged tasks from varios places - like ata, rcu_preempt or network > stack. > Also, if you boot the box with network disconnected - it works, until you > plug the network cable. > > On some kernel builds (like ubuntu stock) behaviour varies, sometimes the box > itself works, > but network stack dies after multiple ICMPv6 skb errors, so box ends up with > network disconnected. > Reloading network susbsys helps to recover for some time (depending on how > fast eth led is blinking). > > Reverting the patch allows me to boot without problems even from latest Linus > trunk and send this mail.
You can find the discussion and improved patch in this thread: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg251287.html Bug - regression - Via velocity interface coming up freezes kernel From: Dirk Kraft <dirk.kraft@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:28:52 +0200 julia > > Regards, > Ruslan > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
