From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: sky2 rx length errors Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:35:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20090919233536.f5fb700c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Grozdan Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:43274 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750797AbZITGgF (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:36:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: (added cc's from the MAINTAINERS file) On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:41:45 +0200 Grozdan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Marvell onboard NIC (88E8053) and I've been noticing for a > while now a bit weird behavior with the sky2 driver. This mostly > occurs with newer kernels (2.6.30, 2.6.31) and my older distro kernel > (2.6.27.21) does not seem to have the same problem. Basically, the > sky2 driver will randomly and unpredictably spew rx length error > messages and reboot itself. I also noticed in dmesg that this mostly > occurs after "martian destination" messages. After this message, sky2 > starts spewing messages as shown below and then reboots itself. It is > not really a big problem for me, but since I'm virtually always logged > in in IRC, the client always loses connection, waits for a few minutes > to get a response from the server and then relogs me again. I do not > think it's a HW problem as the Marvell NIC otherwise works perfectly > and I've checked my cable modem too which operates without a problem. > Any ideas? > > PS: please cc me as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list > > sky2 driver version 1.23 > sky2 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 36 (level, low) -> IRQ 36 > sky2 0000:05:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > sky2 0000:05:00.0: PCI: Disallowing DAC for device > sky2 0000:05:00.0: Yukon-2 EC chip revision 2 > sky2 0000:05:00.0: irq 53 for MSI/MSI-X > sky2 0000:05:00.0: No interrupt generated using MSI, switching to INTx mode. > sky2 eth0: addr 00:11:d8:a1:5b:0e > sky2 eth0: enabling interface > sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx > ..... > ..... > martian destination 0.0.0.0 from 172.23.204.1, dev eth0 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x5ea0100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x5ea0100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x5ea0100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x5ea0100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598 > sky2 eth0: rx length error: status 0x4420100 length 598