Hi Russell, It seems to be a compiler issue, where (GCC) 4.8.2 does not produce a properly working kernel. Happily, (Fedora 2013.11.24-2.fc19) 4.8.1 appears to do a lot better. No crashes so far with v3.16-rc2!
All the best, Fredrik > -----Original Message----- > Hi Fredrik, > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:16:57PM +0000, Fredrik Noring wrote: > > Please find below a trace that appeared once with 3.16-rc2. Perhaps it > > is of some interest? > > It's not that serious... I know that the FEC ethernet driver is horrendously > racy (I have had a patch set for about the last six months which fixes some of > its problems) but as I've had a lot of patches to deal with, and it's been > pushed to the back of the queue... > > The races don't lead to data corruption though, merely timeouts and some > lost packets. > > Now because things have changed during the last merge window, I've got an > even bigger problem sorting through that patch set and getting it back into a > submittable state. I've just sent out v2 for it onto the > net...@vger.kernel.org mailing list. > > The initial version (marked RFC) attracted very little interest from testers, > or > acks. I'd very much like to have some testing of it, so if you want to try it > out, I can provide you with a git URL, patches or a combined patch. > > -- > FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly > improving, and getting towards what was expected from it. *************************************************************** Consider the environment before printing this message. To read Autoliv's Information and Confidentiality Notice, follow this link: http://www.autoliv.com/disclaimer.html *************************************************************** -- 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/
