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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Orlov <bugfixer@list.ru>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm2: badness in 3w_xxxx driver
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Nick Orlov <bugfixer@list.ru> wrote:
>
> Confirmed, this patch solves the "badness" problem for me.

yup, thanks.

>  I still experiencing a weird hangs though (the box just hangs, no
>  messages on console/syslog, nothing). I'll try to nail it down.
> 
>  2.6.16-mm2 works like a charm with the same config.
>  Do you know which patches should I try to revert first?

Gee, 2.6.16-mm2 was a long time ago.

Tried sysrq?

	echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
	<wait for hang>
	ALT-SYSRQ-P or ALT-SYSRQ-T

Is the NMi watchdog enabled?  Boot with `nmi_watchdog=1', make sure that
the NMI counts are incrementing in /proc/interrupts.

Failing all that, testing 2.6.17-rc1 would be interesting.