Re: 2.5.69-mm2 Kernel panic, possibly network related

Steven Cole
2003-05-07T15:20:17Z

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 04:49, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > No, I compile everything into a monolithic kernel.
> > I don't even enable module support.
>
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 02:56:26AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Andrew, color me stumped. mm2/linux.patch doesn't have anything
> > really interesting in the networking. Maybe it's something in
> > the SLAB and/or pgd/pmg re-slabification changes?
>
> The i810 bits would be a failure case of the original slabification.
> At first glance the re-slabification doesn't seem to conflict with the
> unmapping-based slab poisoning.
>
> In another thread, you mentioned that a certain netfilter cset had
> issues; I think it might be good to add that as a second possible cause.
>
> I'm trying to track down testers with i810's to reproduce the issue,
> but the usual suspects and helpers aren't awake yet (most/all of my
> target systems are headless, though I regularly abuse my laptop, which
> appears to S3/Savage -based and so isn't useful for this).

Hey, I've got one of those. Well, an i810 anyway.

[steven@spc1 linux-2.5.69-mm2]$ dmesg | grep 810
agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 E Chipset.
[drm] Initialized i810 1.2.1 20020211 on minor 0

[steven@spc1 steven]$ uname -r
2.5.69-mm2
[steven@spc1 steven]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
[steven@spc1 steven]$ uptime
09:00:52 up 35 min, 4 users, load average: 0.18, 0.06, 0.08

It hasn't gone boink yet.

[steven@spc1 linux-2.5.69-mm2]$ grep ^CONFIG_NET .config
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y

Steven