From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080924.125215.46439097.davem@davemloft.net> References: <21d7e9970809232245x6a91c6e2l552ff039d07e2017@mail.gmail.com> <20080924.003638.71148740.davem@davemloft.net> <20080924191022.GC2591@phobos.i.cabal.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080924191022.GC2591-EK4dZfYtfFRW/gs8oUvUg/d9D2ou9A/h@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: kyle-pfcGkIkfWfAsA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org Cc: airlied-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, jkosina-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, david.vrabel-kQvG35nSl+M@public.gmane.org, rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, chrisl-pghWNbHTmq7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org From: Kyle McMartin Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:10:22 -0400 > I've been working on a patch to detect (using a timer and checking at > up/down) whether or not the flash has been corrupted, and, if it is > rewrite it with the saved good copy (which obviously only helps if > it's the same boot.) Looks interesting, I hope someone runs with it :-) If the flash is seen as corrupt, we should print the current process that is running at the time, and perhaps a pt_regs dump, as these might provide the most important clues to diagnosing this. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754872AbYIXTwg (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:52:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752260AbYIXTw2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:52:28 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54513 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751528AbYIXTw1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:52:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080924.125215.46439097.davem@davemloft.net> To: kyle@mcmartin.ca Cc: airlied@gmail.com, jkosina@suse.cz, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, david.vrabel@csr.com, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org, chrisl@vmware.com Subject: Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080924191022.GC2591@phobos.i.cabal.ca> References: <21d7e9970809232245x6a91c6e2l552ff039d07e2017@mail.gmail.com> <20080924.003638.71148740.davem@davemloft.net> <20080924191022.GC2591@phobos.i.cabal.ca> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Kyle McMartin Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:10:22 -0400 > I've been working on a patch to detect (using a timer and checking at > up/down) whether or not the flash has been corrupted, and, if it is > rewrite it with the saved good copy (which obviously only helps if > it's the same boot.) Looks interesting, I hope someone runs with it :-) If the flash is seen as corrupt, we should print the current process that is running at the time, and perhaps a pt_regs dump, as these might provide the most important clues to diagnosing this.