netdev - RE: [REGRESSION] e1000e stopped working [MANUALLY BISECTED]

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:56:35 -0600
From:	"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
CC:	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	"Pieper, Jeffrey E" <jeffrey.e.pieper@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [REGRESSION] e1000e stopped working [MANUALLY BISECTED]

Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 15:23 -0600, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
>> Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 12:58 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 01:13 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 15:48, Maxim Levitsky
>>>>> <maximlevitsky@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Did few guesses, and now I see that reverting the below commit
>>>>>> fixes the problem. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "e1000e: Fix/cleanup PHY reset code for ICHx/PCHx"
>>>>>> e98cac447cc1cc418dff1d610a5c79c4f2bdec7f.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>        Maxim Levitsky
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can you give us till Tuesday to respond?  I know that there are
>>>>> some additional e1000e patches in my queue, which may resolve the
>>>>> issue, but this weekend the power is down to do some
>>>>> infrastructure upgrades which prevents us from doing any
>>>>> investigation.debugging until Tuesday. 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sure.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> 	Maxim Levitsky
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Updates?
>> 
>> We are working on reproducing the issue. So far we have not seen the
>> problem when testing with net-next. 
>> 
>> I asked in previous email about some additional info from ethtool
>> (-d, -e, -S) and kernel config. That would help us to narrow it
>> down.  
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Emil
> I did send -e and -d output.

Sorry, looks like I lost the email with the attachements. 

Could you provide the output of dmesg after the failure occurs?
 
> Since you probably want -S output during failure, I need to recompile
> kernel for that. I will do that soon.
> 
> 
> One question, in two weeks I hope 2.6.35 won't be released?
> If so, I will have enough free time then to narrow down this issue.
> 
> Other solution, is to revert this commit.
> (I have never seen this problem with it reverted).

We have been running reboot tests on 2 separate systems with recent net-next kernels 
using your config and so far no luck in reproducing this issue. 

What is the make model of your system (or MB)?

Thanks,
Emil