From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: Vague maybe ppp-related panic report for 2.6.23-rc9 Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:53:25 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20071004.135113.48807663.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from sj-iport-1-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.70]:61641 "EHLO sj-iport-1.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757978AbXJDUx1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:53:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20071004.135113.48807663.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:51:13 -0700 (PDT)") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > I don't want to jump the gun on the analysis but it just might > be the packet sharing fixes Herbert put in a short time ago. > > What you could do is go back to say rc2 and see if you still get > the panics, then bisect from there to narrow it down. > > If rc2 still gives the panic, it's something else, perhaps device > specific. OK thanks. I'm still trying to find a good way to reproduce it, so I'm going to try to get it to happen with -rc9 while running in the console, and at least take a picture of the backtrace. If I find a good way to make it happen then I'll try rc2 and let you know. - R.