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: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:12:29 +0100 Message-ID: <7d01f9f00701100912kc6fb635wd863d9563b0eb328@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d01f9f00701051103q3ee6ed35q9fd0f778a18061b8@mail.gmail.com> <20070109092602.GC1703@ff.dom.local> <7d01f9f00701090227v60b37e5dy6afbf70ccde58bf2@mail.gmail.com> <20070109130220.GA4060@ff.dom.local> <7d01f9f00701090944o62f39fb4yfaa5449c2d2d010d@mail.gmail.com> <20070109200541.GA27089@xyzzy.farnsworth.org> <7d01f9f00701091305n3a82713fla442a70a6098dbf@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jarek Poplawski" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, mlachwani@mvista.com Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]:28777 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964970AbXAJRMb (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:12:31 -0500 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so98474wra for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:12:30 -0800 (PST) To: "Dale Farnsworth" In-Reply-To: <7d01f9f00701091305n3a82713fla442a70a6098dbf@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 1/9/07, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > On 1/9/07, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > > > > Thank you Thibaut. Please try the following patch: > > > > From: Dale Farnsworth > > > > Reserve one unused descriptor in the TX ring > > to facilitate testing for when the ring is full. > > Dale, > > tried it and unfortunately: Also, I don't know if you read that bit, but everytime I reboot the box immediately after a crash, the NIC gets a bogus (always the same it seems) MAC address, and I have to reboot one more time to get back to the "normal" MAC address. Dunno if that hints anything though. HTH -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/