From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Matt Carlson" Subject: Re: tg3: BMC stops responding in 3.0 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:57:01 -0700 Message-ID: <20110929235701.GA9513@mcarlson.broadcom.com> References: <201109232145.50449.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> <20110926182217.GB2440@mcarlson.broadcom.com> <201109262031.33956.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Matthew Carlson" , "Michael Chan" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: "Arkadiusz Mi??kiewicz" Return-path: Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:2247 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752072Ab1I2X5m (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:57:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201109262031.33956.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:31:33AM -0700, Arkadiusz Mi??kiewicz wrote: > On Monday 26 of September 2011, Matt Carlson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:45:50PM -0700, Arkadiusz Mi??kiewicz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I was using 2.6.38.8 and recently tried to switch to 3.0.4 on Tyan S2891 > > > platform. > > > > > > This platform uses tg3: > > > tg3 0000:0a:09.1: eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704) rev 2003] > > > (PCIX:133MHz:64- bit) MAC address 00:e0:81:33:5e:af > > > tg3 0000:0a:09.1: eth1: attached PHY is 5704 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) > > > (WireSpeed[1], EEE[0]) > > > tg3 0000:0a:09.1: eth1: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] > > > TSOcap[1] tg3 0000:0a:09.1: eth1: dma_rwctrl[769f4000] dma_mask[64-bit] > > > > > > With 2.6.38.8 everything was working fine. With 3.0.4 there is a problem. > > > As soon as tg3 module is loaded or eth0 configured (can't tell which one > > > since the machine is 400km away from me and I have no way to play with > > > it other than ipmi or ssh) BMC stops responding (so all ipmitool > > > commands over LAN stop working). Normal tg3 activity is not affected - I > > > can ssh-in without a problem etc but ipmi over lan doesn't work. > > > > > > From ssh console "ipmitool lan print" works, shows data but for example > > > after "ipmitool mc reset cold" it doesn't recover - ipmitool returns > > > "Invalid channel: 255". I have to reboot to 2.6.38.8 and then issue > > > "ipmitool mc reset cold" to recover. > > > > > > Any idea which tg3 change could break this? Can't bisect this due remote > > > access only. > > > > > > I was hoping that maybe 9e975cc291d80d5e4562d6bed15ec171e896d69b > > > "tg3: Fix io failures after chip reset" will fix things for me but no - > > > this doesn't help. > > > > What version of the tg3 driver are you working with? > > The one in 3.0.4 kernel. I think it's 3.119 (at least modinfo says so). Unfortunately there were a lot of changes between 3.117 and 3.119(+). Is there any way you can narrow down the gap?