Re: RE: bnx2 FTQ issues on 2.6.32 + xen 4.0.1;

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:27:24PM +0800, MaoXiaoyun wrote:
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> I have below configuration in grub.conf, did u mean change 115200 to sth?
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> iommu=off x2apic=off console=com1,vga com1=115200,8n1

Hm, that is what I had in mind. That is not enough to get the data before your machine crashes?

When it crashes - you mean the watchdog timer hits - so your machine is still functioninig right?
Then you should be able to see the output of the driver in /var/log/messages,syslog I think?

You are still able to recover when the bnx drivers goes bonk, right?
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> thanks.
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> > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:15:39 -0400
> > From: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
> > To: tinnycloud@hotmail.com
> > CC: mchan@broadcom.com; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: bnx2 FTQ issues on 2.6.32 + xen 4.0.1;
> > 
> > > > > I've spent more time on this.
> > > > > It's easy to reproduce. I have two physical host, on top of which, totally start 15VMS, doing migrating over
> > > > > and over again. Since xen live migration invovle large mount of memory copy, so I can see that the network is
> > > > > saturated. About 16 hours later, the FTQ dump will show up.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've debugged more. 
> > > > > Below debug code is added when FTQ happens.
> > > > > Does anyone know what is going on? 
> > > > 
> > > > No idea. Did Michael Chan send you a private email with some ideas?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yep, Michael give me some debug patch. But unfortunately, when this bug show up, there is no enough time for the
> > > kernel to print all debugged log before it crashes. 
> > 
> > Can you use a serial console at a high baud rate?
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