From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Mannthey Subject: bnx2 is spamming dmesg Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:30:34 -0700 Message-ID: <1287005434.8004.32.camel@keith-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mchan@broadcom.com To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:51653 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752309Ab0JMVag (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:30:36 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o9DLA4pC010732 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:10:04 -0400 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id o9DLUZBl455968 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:30:35 -0400 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id o9DLUYrl028728 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:30:35 -0600 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello All, For the last couple of months (since at least 2.6.35 somewhere) I have been seeing " .... [698612.423825] Device 0000:0b:00.0 unmapping: pfn ffc74-ffc74 [698612.423831] Device 0000:0b:00.0 unmapping: pfn ff96d-ff96d [698612.639262] Device 0000:0b:00.0 unmapping: pfn ffc74-ffc74 [698612.639269] Device 0000:0b:00.0 unmapping: pfn ff96d-ff96d .... " in my dmesg output. " lspci -s 0000:0b:00.0 0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) " The bnx2 driver is loaded on my system. I am presently on 2.6.36-rc3 kernels but like I mentioned I have been seeing this for a while. Any ideas? I would rather not have this endless message in my kernel logs. Thanks, Keith Mannthey IBM LTC Local Filesystems