Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-07 Thread Peter LaDow
Sorry, I noted on the earlier post I only did a single reply, rather than a reply-all. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Ronciak, John wrote: > We have some ideas and are working on a patch for you to try. Since we won't > really be able to test it can you do that if we get it to you? Do you kno

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-06 Thread Peter LaDow
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Ronciak, John wrote: > OK so a couple of thing kind of stand out. What interface is the e1000 on? > eth0? That's not being called out or you filtered it out from the dmesg. > Early on eth2 is the e1000 interface but later it's one of the Gianfar > interfaces.

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-06 Thread Peter LaDow
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Ronciak, John wrote: > I agree with Jesse but this driver has been in the field for a very long time > with no reports like this coming to us. Can you send us the dmesg when this > is happening? I want to see if there are messages from the driver like if > the

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-06 Thread Peter LaDow
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote: > What about the pre-emption behavior of the kernel? Namely Processor type > and Features -> Preemption Model. Are you using no preemption, or forced > preemption? Ok. I've done testing. Yes, we were building with PREEMPT_FULL. I'v

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-06 Thread Peter LaDow
On 6/6/13, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote: > What about the pre-emption behavior of the kernel? Namely Processor > type and Features -> Preemption Model. Are you using no preemption, or > forced preemption? It is PREEMPT_FULL. I'll turn it off and give it a spin. Thanks, Pete ---

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-05 Thread Peter LaDow
Quick followup. What I meant by "not sending much" is the adapter, not the network. The network is very busy. However, there is hardly any outgoing traffic from the box. On 6/5/13, Peter LaDow wrote: > On 6/5/13, Ronciak, John wrote: >> So I have a couple of questions. Does

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-05 Thread Peter LaDow
On 6/5/13, Ronciak, John wrote: > So I have a couple of questions. Does this happen with a non-preemptive > kernel? I understand that you probably need to use a preemptive kernel but > for testing purposes it would be good to know. We don't always test with > preemptive kernels. Hmmm... If you

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-05 Thread Peter LaDow
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Peter LaDow wrote: > After some more digging, I'm wondering if this is indeed a timing > issue. Is there a problem with bringing up an interface too soon > after taking it down? If I change my loop to use a 30 second delay > between interface br

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-05 Thread Peter LaDow
ry helpful. Thanks, Pete On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Peter LaDow wrote: > We are running a PPC system with an 82540EP that is causing kernel > panics when there is heavy traffic and the interface is brought up > and/or down (we aren't sure which yet). > > We are running 3.0

[E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-05 Thread Peter LaDow
We are running a PPC system with an 82540EP that is causing kernel panics when there is heavy traffic and the interface is brought up and/or down (we aren't sure which yet). We are running 3.0.57-rt82, but we can re-create this issue reliably with 3.0.80 and 3.0.80-rt109 with the base version inc