From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thibaut VARENE" Subject: Re: kernel BUG in eth_alloc_tx_desc_index at drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c:1069! Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:27:59 +0100 Message-ID: <7d01f9f00701090227v60b37e5dy6afbf70ccde58bf2@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d01f9f00701051103q3ee6ed35q9fd0f778a18061b8@mail.gmail.com> <20070109092602.GC1703@ff.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:47697 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285AbXAIK2B (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 05:28:01 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so6523696uga for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:27:59 -0800 (PST) To: "Jarek Poplawski" In-Reply-To: <20070109092602.GC1703@ff.dom.local> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 1/9/07, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > On 05-01-2007 20:03, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been experiencing this bug on my Pegasos II (PPC G4 1GHz, 512M > ... > > [C7F6FA60] [C0012498] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14 > > --- Exception: 501 at __kmalloc+0x30/0xc0 > > LR = rpc_malloc+0x48/0xac [sunrpc] > > [C7F6FB20] [C3D72508] 0xc3d72508 (unreliable) > > [C7F6FB30] [E2A88E18] rpc_malloc+0x48/0xac [sunrpc] > > [C7F6FB40] [E2A835F8] call_allocate+0x88/0x108 [sunrpc] > > [C7F6FB60] [E2A89554] __rpc_execute+0x94/0x248 [sunrpc] > > Aren't there any other warnings displayed before? No, I've pasted the full dump that appeared on the serial console I had setup when the crash occured. > No problems with memory or disk? I suspected both and changed both the disk and the ram for quality parts, that I tested afterwards. Both passed thorough tests. Finally, using the other NIC on the box (a VIA Rhine II, 100Mbps), works absolutely fine. HTH T-Bone (PS: please CC me in answers) -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/