From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Greg Huber <ghuber@vanteon.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Assistance debugging a Micrel network driver
Date: 29 Jun 2007 19:20:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73ejju4r06.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468527A2.40909@vanteon.com>
Greg Huber <ghuber@vanteon.com> writes:
>
> The upper layers obviously work so I'm sure it's something in my driver.
netstat -s output might give some clue. Most packet drop
points have a counter.
>
> I have turned on as much debugging in the kernel as I could find, but
> I get no messages. Could someone please let me know if
> there is additional debugging I should consider or if there is a
> dynamic way to turn on debugging in L2 and/or L3.
The usual is to just add printks to the kernel source code until you
find where the packet is dropped.
Or perhaps check in __kfree_skb if the skb is coming from your
driver and force a backtrace with show_stack().
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-29 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-29 15:39 Assistance debugging a Micrel network driver Greg Huber
2007-06-29 16:02 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-29 17:20 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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