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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: panics in tcp_ack
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:58:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370275097.24311.158.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51ACBB86.6010702@gmail.com>

On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 10:51 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:

> Any ideas on what could cause that? Anything the driver could be doing
> or not doing to cause it? Perhaps some memory ordering or visibility issue.
> 

Yes, maybe, but I have no idea.

> > Your best bet would be to perform a (reverse) bisection if you know
> > recent kernels are OK.
> 
> I did that once looking at 3.6 and 3.7 stable kernels, but they did not
> have fixes like "tcp: fix skb_availroom()" and so I just hit other
> failures. I'll do it again with more fixes applied.

Yes, you'll have to apply a number of known fixes at every step of the
bisection, sorry !

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-03 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-03  0:16 panics in tcp_ack Rob Herring
2013-06-03  0:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-03  0:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-03  0:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-03  2:23   ` Rob Herring
2013-06-03  3:03     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-03  3:18       ` Rob Herring
2013-06-03  3:32         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-03  3:41           ` Rob Herring
2013-06-03 13:05     ` Rob Herring
2013-06-03 13:25       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-03 15:51         ` Rob Herring
2013-06-03 15:58           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-06-14 19:12         ` Rob Herring
2013-06-14 20:52           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-06 17:21 ` Rob Herring
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-06-03  0:13 Rob Herring

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