From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Dominik Karall <dominik.karall@gmx.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniele Venzano <webvenza@libero.it>
Subject: Re: SiS900: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:26:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41067418.9020000@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407232052.06616.dominik.karall@gmx.net>
Dominik Karall wrote:
> After a few hours my network doesn't work on my laptop. There appear a lot of
> those messages:
>
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
>
> It works again after restarting network. I'm using 2.6.8-rc2 now. It was the
> same problem in 2.6.7, but I didn't test it with earlier kernels.
A NULL appears when the machine is temporarily unable to allocate room
for a new skb. Your machine's atomic memory pools are getting too low...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-27 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-23 18:52 SiS900: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping Dominik Karall
2004-07-25 9:21 ` Dominik Karall
2004-07-27 15:26 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-07-27 16:14 ` Dominik Karall
2004-07-27 16:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-28 12:29 ` Daniele Venzano
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