Good Morning! NOTE: Please CC answers/replies to my personal email account, because i can't keep track of all the stuff on linux-kernel, as i just started a new job. Thank you very much! Ok i'll try to stick to the bug report form :) PROBLEM: Kernel Panics since i switched to T-DSL, using masquadering. Supposed to be fixed in 2.4.5pre9 ? Description: I switched to DSL about 2 weeks ago, i got 3 NICs in that box one for the private net, one for the biz net and one for the DSL modem, using pppoe (not rp-pppoe). All three are Intel EtherExpress Pro 100+, two brand new ones and an older one (different size, same driver), but it happened with a Tulip card instead of the old Intel (which serves the modem) as well. The Kernel kept crashing with Kernel Panics, usually with Process: swapper (PID = 0), but when dnetc is running, it preferrable gives dnetc as process. It seems to occur only with masquadering in use. I'm using Kernel 2.4.6 (it happened in 2.4.4, 2.4.5 and 2.4.5ac22 as well), because i thought those fixes in pre9 would od the trick: -pre9: - make sure "sync()" doesn't effectively lock up the machine by overloading all the IO resources - fix up some network memory allocations that don't wan tto wait on IO. it crashed only two times in a little more than 24 hours, which is really good.. I was happy for every hour uptime the days before :) I hope the other informations help you to find and fix the problem, i'll be happy to provide any other information needed. Keywords: Kernel Panics, sync(), IO ressources (i think ;) root@router:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.6 (root@router) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #2 SMP Wed Jul 4 19:18:12 CEST 2001 Couldn't figure out how to do the oops tracing (it's late) and i can't provide a shell script/program which reproduces the crash unfortunately, it dies unexpectandly. Environment: Linux router 2.4.6 #2 SMP Wed Jul 4 19:18:12 CEST 2001 i686 unknown Gnu C egcs-2.91.66 Gnu make 3.79 binutils 2.9.1.0.25 util-linux 2.11d mount 2.11d modutils 2.4.6 e2fsprogs 1.22 reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j PPP 2.4.1 isdn4k-utils 3.1pre1 Linux C Library 2.1.3 ldd: version 1.9.9 Procps 2.0.6 Net-tools 1.55 Kbd 0.99 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded pppoe pppox ipt_TOS ipt_state ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_limit ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_mangle iptable_nat ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables hisax isdn root@router:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : Celeron (Mendocino) stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 300.688 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr bogomips : 599.65 root@router:~# cat /proc/modules pppoe 8416 1 (autoclean) pppox 1664 1 (autoclean) [pppoe] ipt_TOS 1200 5 (autoclean) ipt_state 896 5 (autoclean) ipt_REJECT 3232 7 (autoclean) ipt_LOG 3600 14 (autoclean) ipt_limit 1344 16 (autoclean) ipt_MASQUERADE 1680 2 (autoclean) iptable_mangle 2016 0 (autoclean) (unused) iptable_nat 16464 0 (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE] ip_conntrack 16496 2 (autoclean) [ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat] iptable_filter 2048 0 (autoclean) (unused) ip_tables 11104 11 [ipt_TOS ipt_state ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_limit ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_mangle iptable_nat iptable_filter] hisax 137104 2 isdn 116592 3 [hisax] root@router:~# cat /proc/ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 0340-0340 : HiSax hscx A fifo 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 0740-075f : HiSax hscx A 0b40-0b40 : HiSax hscx B fifo 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 0f40-0f5f : HiSax hscx B 1340-1340 : HiSax isac fifo 1740-175f : HiSax isac 1b40-1b47 : avm cfg 4000-403f : Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI 5000-501f : Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI e000-e01f : Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB e400-e43f : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] e400-e43f : eepro100 e800-e81f : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (#2) e800-e81f : eepro100 ec00-ec3f : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (#3) ec00-ec3f : eepro100 f000-f00f : Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE root@router:~# cat /proc/iomem 00000000-0009ffff : System RAM 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM 000c8000-000c8fff : Extension ROM 000c9000-000c9fff : Extension ROM 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-03ffffff : System RAM 00100000-0020c459 : Kernel code 0020c45a-0026815f : Kernel data d0000000-d3ffffff : Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge d4000000-d5ffffff : PCI Bus #01 d4000000-d4ffffff : nVidia Corporation Riva TnT 128 [NV04] d6000000-d6ffffff : PCI Bus #01 d6000000-d6ffffff : nVidia Corporation Riva TnT 128 [NV04] d8000000-d80fffff : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] d8100000-d81fffff : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (#2) d8200000-d82fffff : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (#3) d8300000-d8300fff : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] d8300000-d8300fff : eepro100 d8301000-d8301fff : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (#3) d8301000-d8301fff : eepro100 d8302000-d8302fff : Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (#2) d8302000-d8302fff : eepro100 ffff0000-ffffffff : reserved lspci -vvv: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 02) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0 Status: RQ=31 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2 Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: d4000000-d5ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d6000000-d6ffffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B+ 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Region 4: I/O ports at f000 [size=16] 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 12 Region 4: I/O ports at e000 [size=32] 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 9 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12 Region 0: Memory at d8300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 1: I/O ports at e400 [size=64] Region 2: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05) Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100+ Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at d8302000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 1: I/O ports at e800 [size=32] Region 2: Memory at d8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at d8301000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 1: I/O ports at ec00 [size=64] Region 2: Memory at d8200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TnT 128 [NV04] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Elsa AG Erazor II SGRAM Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (1250ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [44] AGP version 1.0 Status: RQ=15 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2 Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> no SCSI Stuff :) And here is the stuff i hand-copied from the screen, i hope there are no typos in it. virtual address 00008ba7 *pde = 00000000 Oops = 0000 CPU = 0 EIP = 0010:[<c01c96c9>] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: c1569940 ebx: 00008ba7 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00068ba7 esi: c1b5ce80 edi: c15697e0 ebp: 00000060 esp: c0e41dd4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process dnetc (pid: 2152, stackpage=c0e41000) Stack: ffffff00 c01c976b c1b5ce80 ffffff00 c1b5ce80 c01c9d53 c1b5ce80 c11fa800 c1b5ce80 0000000e c1b5ce80 ffffffe6 c01cc667 c1b5ce80 00000020 00000004 c1979b20 0000000e c01d0cdd c1b5ce80 00000001 00000000 c1b5ce80 c01dabf0 Call Trace: [<c01c976b>] [<c01c9d53>] [<c01ccdd7>] [<c01d0cdd>] [<c01dabf0>] [<c01dacb0>] [<c01d1ef8>] [<c01d8240>] [<c01dabd2>] [<c01dabf0>] [<c01d829a>] [<c01d1ef8>] [<c01d8fd6>] [<c01d8240>] [<c01d7290>] ^ f or 1 ? (that's the f in the third entry, for those not using fixed width fonts :) [<c01d742d>] [<c01d7290>] [<c01d1ef8>] [<c01d70d6>] [<c01d7290>] [<c01cd59e>] [<c0116b8a>] [<c01085cb>] [<c0106d04>] Code: 8b 1b 8b 42 70 83 f8 01 74 0b f0 ff 4a 70 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing. Well people, i really hope you can help me with that problem, i know that i'm not the onl one, a friend of mine has the same problem, and another guy in the adsl4linux Forum. http://www.adsl4linux.de/forum/viewthread.php3?TID=147 He even has a screenshot of his kernel panic (this one has Process: swapper ;), look quite similar to mine. http://www.homepages.lu/globi/panic.jpg That's it, i'm going to bed.. Have fun dudes, and don't make me switch to *BSD ;) mfg, Christian Rubbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/