Hi Shuah, FYI, your debug commit commit 224d4b5563b005836628b1c02ebe374684df118f Author: Shuah Khan Date: Fri Oct 12 15:23:05 2012 +1100 dma-debug: new interfaces to debug dma mapping errors triggers the below warning. Hopefully you know better than me the real issue and relevant developers to CC. [ 12.756348] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready [ 12.763446] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 12.764380] WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/src/stable/lib/dma-debug.c:948 check_unmap+0x645/0x7bd() [ 12.764380] Hardware name: Bochs [ 12.764380] Sending DHCP requests . [ 12.764380] e1000 0000:00:03.0: DMA-API: device driver failed to check map error[device address=0x00000000199140fa] [size=90 bytes] [mapped as single] [ 12.764380] Modules linked in: [ 12.764380] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.6.0-next-20121012 #1039 [ 12.764380] Call Trace: [ 12.764380] [] ? check_unmap+0x645/0x7bd [ 12.764380] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9c [ 12.764380] [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48 [ 12.764380] [] check_unmap+0x645/0x7bd [ 12.764380] [] ? kvm_clock_read+0x2e/0x36 [ 12.764380] [] debug_dma_unmap_page+0x5b/0x65 [ 12.764380] [] ? pvclock_clocksource_read+0x4d/0xc3 [ 12.764380] [] ? sched_clock_local+0x12/0x75 [ 12.764380] [] e1000_unmap_and_free_tx_resource.isra.27+0xc0/0xed [ 12.764380] [] e1000_clean+0xcf/0x73e [ 12.764380] [] ? pvclock_clocksource_read+0x4d/0xc3 [ 12.764380] [] ? net_rx_action+0x1cc/0x244 [ 12.764380] [] net_rx_action+0xc5/0x244 [ 12.764380] [] __do_softirq+0xf6/0x231 [ 12.764380] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x29/0x3d [ 12.764380] [] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [ 12.764380] [] do_softirq+0x4a/0xa6 [ 12.764380] [] irq_exit+0x51/0xbc [ 12.764380] [] do_IRQ+0x9d/0xb4 [ 12.764380] [] common_interrupt+0x72/0x72 [ 12.764380] [] ? local_clock+0x1d/0x5a [ 12.764380] [] ? native_safe_halt+0x6/0x8 [ 12.764380] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [ 12.764380] [] default_idle+0xc7/0x218 [ 12.764380] [] cpu_idle+0x9f/0xf9 [ 12.764380] [] start_secondary+0x238/0x240 Thanks, Fengguang