Note: Ingo also reports what looks like a memory corruption due to
the 6b6b6b6b pattern on presumably the same box.
The 6b6b6b6b pattern is POISON_FREE, implying some kind of slab misuse,
most likely a use-after-free, although possibly just due to overrunning a
slab into the next one or something like that.
What I'm leading up to is that I'm wondering if these mysterious network
driver bugs aren't due to the network drivers themselves, but due to some
higher-level problem. I think the hangs that Ingo sees with forcedeth were
preceded by mysterious and "impossible" NULL pointer oopses. Ingo?
Davem - have there been network infrastructure changes that migt be
suspect? Jeff and/or Greg - anything in the generic network driver/device
driver level? We had some trouble earlier with the transition to the
driver core, and kref miscounting. Related? The last Oops Ingo saw was a
module refcounting one, iirc.
It does seem networking related somehow. Yeah, it could be obviously be a
combination of independent bugs both in e1000/ and forcedeth drivers, but
maybe there is something in common here...
I'll make an -rc7, but I'm a bit worried about the fact that I haven't
actually gotten anything that looks like it might address any of this
(unless some of the network patches I just pulled do, but that sounds
unlikely). It's been very quiet. I don't like that. I don't get the
feeling that we're making progress here, unlike the timer-related
regressions which seem to all be slowly working themselves out..
So please people, give it a look. Comments?
Linus
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> Subject : laptops with e1000: lockups
> References : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229603
> Submitter : Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Handled-By : Jesse Brandeburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Status : problem is being debugged
>
> Subject : forcedeth: interface hangs under load
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/3/39
> Submitter : Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ayaz Abdulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Status : problem is being debugged
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